Reply #14: Here is a local op-ed piece about the justice system [View All]

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and how it works in PA, it's who you know.

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/opinion/6896251.htm

snip:Owen awoke to find agents going door to door telling residents to leave their homes. He questioned the order. That night, agents returned to raid his home and confiscated 25 marijuana plants.

Owen suffers from Crohn's disease, an illness so obscure that a Daily Collegian article that ran last year referenced it several times without ever spelling it correctly.

Snip:
Compare this outcome to a nearly identical case three years ago. In 2000, Christopher Johnstone, a Penn State professor and former Patton Township supervisor, was arrested for possessing 28 plants 4 to 6 feet tall and about two pounds of dried marijuana hidden throughout the house in coffee cans, peanut butter jars, in the den, in the freezer and baked into brownies.

At the time, Centre County District Attorney Ray Gricar seemed more concerned about Johnstone's job at Penn State than prosecuting him on drug charges.

To expain this without any more snips, the Professor got probation and $1,000 fine. Owen got sentenced to 2yrs, minus one day in prison. Owen was born in Canada.