Feds are appealing Ed Rosenthal's sentence

From this:

Still licking their wounds, federal prosecutors have fired another shot at freed grass guru Ed Rosenthal, appealing the light sentence that let the convicted medical pot grower walk away a free man last month.

The motion, filed late Thursday in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, does not go into any detail about the grounds of appeal, according to Assistant United States Attorney Matthew Jacobs, who would not comment on why the Department of Justice decided to appeal the sentence...

"I think the Ninth Circuit is going to knock that appeal down quicker that you can knock down a stack of cards on your desk," said [Golden Gate University law school dean Peter Keane]...

"The U.S. Attorney got its marching orders from Washington, as a matter of course," he said. "(Attorney General John) Ashcroft is very idealistic on the subject of marijuana and medical marijuana and wants the U.S. Attorney to emphasize the fact that they don't like it..."

"They should be happy with what they got," [Rosenthal] said. "Right now, I'm a felon and by the time I'm done with this, not only will I be exonerated, the courts will find that these laws should be thrown out."

(Via TalkLeft)

WarOnDrugs · Tue, 07/08/2003 - 11:52 · · Importance: 1