How a Missouri Man Could Die in Prison for Weed At the sentencing Johnston asked the judge to be more forgiving this time, arguing under the mistaken belief that his client faced a 30-year “life” sentence with the possibility of parole. “I think that 30 years in prison for that …
How a Missouri Man Could Die in Prison for Weed “I wasn’t aware it was life without parole. I thought it was a life sentence,” says attorney Randall Brown Johnston when reached by phone last month. “This is coming completely out of left field.” Jeff Mizanskey readily admits that he …
How a Missouri Man Could Die in Prison for Weed On a dark rural highway, a week before Christmas in 1993, two Hispanic males barreled east through Missouri in a 1978 Mercury Cougar. Stashed in the trunk was nearly 100 pounds of marijuana. It had taken the men fourteen hours …