A military veteran serving a life sentence for selling less than $30 worth of marijuana will soon be released from prison, his attorney said
Derek Harris, who was arrested in 2008 in Louisiana for selling an officer .69 grams of marijuana, was recently resentenced to time served. He's already served nine years in prison.
The Louisiana Supreme Court agreed with Harris' argument claiming he had"ineffective assistance of counsel at sentencing on post-conviction review." The matter was sent back to the trial court for an evidentiary writ. "His prior offenses were nonviolent and related to his untreated dependency on drugs," Louisiana Supreme Court Justice John Weimer wrote in his opinion.
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