Mark Tynes, brother of NY Giants kicker, in fed prison for 27 yrs for pot conspiracy

[goodmangigabyte]

http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?videoId=3344951

Check out ESPN Outside the Lines (OTL). Mark Tynes, brother of Lawrence Tynes, kicker for the Super bowl winning NY Giants, got 324 months for a large scale mj distribution enterprise in Florida.
His four co-defs got 21 to 60 months on plea agreements.
Mark, partly because of two previous felony convictions for mj, and because he didn't take a plea, received 324 months and is not due for parole till 2026.
For what it's worth, his co-defs explained that they took deals because everyone was caught red-handed. Mark didn't take a deal because he would have had to plea to life in prison with the POSSIBILITY that his sentence would be shorter. Despite Lawrence's urging him to take the deal, Mark didn't trust the feds and went to trial and lost.
However, Lawrence and the codefs agree that 27 years is WAY WAY too long for mj distribution. Murderers and child molesters get less time than that.
I'm just amazed that the maximum penalty for mj distribution would be LIFE IN EFFING PRISON. What the hell? I mean, you should kill someone before they start offering you that sort of time.

Maybe he should have taken the deal, huh? I know it sucks to trust the prosecutor and the judge and say I accept life in prison, just have mercy and give me less, but dayam, in retrospect, maybe he shoulda taken the deal...

 

[Classyathome]

Sounds like the 3 strike rule caught him - that sucks, but how dumb do you have to be to do a large scale mj distribution op with 2 fed beefs already done and done?

Jeez - that is a shame, and no doubt will get reduced on appeal...

Maybe Barry Cooper could help him, eh Rudy the Red???

Sorry to everyone else for the private joke - just a kick at a dumbass leo luver...

 

[RudolfTheRed]

No one is a leo love you cock sucker.

What I want is the support of leo so we can start getting marijuana legalized. Its not my fault your so caught up in this no snitchin street bullshit to recognize that. No one here likes snitches or supports the fucking police and what they do when they bust people. If you can't see the difference between what I am saying and what you're trying to accuse me of then you, like the leader are two of the biggest idiots i have ever met. you're like bevis and butthead when your together.

 

[Laura Kush]

I put on my wizard's hat and cast melf's acid arrow at the troll.

 

[Classyathome]

And click - another one joins the ignore list...

Nice hat, dumbass...

 

[twojoints]

sounds like this guy was making a lot of money off his business... but people at enron fucked over this economy way more then this guy im SURE. He doesnt deserve more then a couple years max...

 

[BoB91]

---- he doesnt deserve anything if you ask me

 

[Classyathome]

sounds like this guy was making a lot of money off his business... but people at enron fucked over this economy way more then this guy im SURE. He doesnt deserve more then a couple years max...

Agreed

---- he doesnt deserve anything if you ask me

Yup - but he is a 3 time fed loser - that gets you a big sentence vs a first timer getting pinched...

 

[goodmangigabyte]

I'm thinking that his two previous mj convictions must be state convictions. I don't think someone can be a two time felony loser for mj in federal court and still be out to commit a third offense relatively soon. I'm pretty sure they only go after large scale distributors and dealers in federal court, so if you're in there on a drug charge, expect to go down for a decade or more (which he did).

 

[slohemian]

The whole system is fucked up. In my state, the cultivation ove ONE plant can get you 1 year in the slammer. Possibly probation if its your first offense. In the state next to me, you can grow 5 fucking plants and only face probation. THE SYSTEM IS FUCKED! There is no hope for the people until the system is fixed. First strike.... third strike, your life is ruined by these laws at the first instance, plain and simple. And while the tyrants that control our country are getting stronger each day... the question is: whats the best country to move to.

 

[Classyathome]

The whole system is fucked up. In my state, the cultivation ove ONE plant can get you 1 year in the slammer. Possibly probation if its your first offense. In the state next to me, you can grow 5 fucking plants and only face probation. THE SYSTEM IS FUCKED! There is no hope for the people until the system is fixed. First strike.... third strike, your life is ruined by these laws at the first instance, plain and simple. And while the tyrants that control our country are getting stronger each day... the question is: whats the best country to move to.

Canada...

Home of the best marijuana in the world - according to the DEA.

And a few others...