After overcoming homelessness and a life sentence over $20 worth of marijuana, Fate Winslow is finally free Taylor Ardrey Fate Winslow. Fate Winslow was released from Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola last week after serving 12 years for a non-violent drug offence. Winslow was convicted for marijuana distribution after selling $US20 worth of marijuana to an undercover police officer in 2008. Now, finally released, he told Insider has plans to reconnect with his family and pursue a job in landscaping. It just feels good being free, Winslow told Insider.
He was sentenced to life without parole for marijuana distribution after selling $US20 worth to a plain-clothed officer in 2008. Recently homeless, Winslow was standing on the street in Shreveport with a friend when the undercover cop confronted him and asked him for marijuana.
A homeless man sentenced to life in prison for a $20 marijuana sale is freed after 12 years By: CNN
By Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) In 2008, Fate Winslow was approached by a plain-clothed undercover police officer in Shreveport, Louisiana, looking for some marijuana.
Winslow, recently homeless at the time, borrowed a friend s bike and came back 10 minutes later with two small bags of marijuana worth $20, according to the Innocence Project New Orleans, who represented Winslow.
The officer arrested Winslow. And because Winslow had three priors a burglary of a business when he was 17 in 1985, a car burglary in 1995 and possession of cocaine when he was 36 the $20 sale landed Winslow a life sentence, according to IPNO.
Louisiana man serving life sentence for $20 worth of marijuana released
Winslow was re-sentenced to time served after IPNO director and lead attorney Jee Park successfully appealed based on grounds of ineffective assistance of counsel. Author: Mike Perlstein / Eyewitness Investigator Published: 7:53 PM EST December 16, 2020 Updated: 9:17 AM EST December 17, 2020
NEW ORLEANS Fate Winslow said the first thing he wants to do when he gets back home to Shreveport is stop at Popeye’s for fried chicken.
And following his joyful release from Angola state prison Wednesday after serving 12 years over $20 worth of marijuana, Winslow, 53, said his next stop is the most important: Reuniting with his four children and three grandchildren who thought they may never see him again as a free man.
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I m full of joy : Louisiana man serving life sentence for $20 marijuana charge released By Zoe Christen Jones
December 17, 2020 / 7:36 PM / CBS News
A man who was serving a life sentence for selling $20 of marijuana was released from a Louisiana prison this week, his attorneys said. Fate Winslow, 53, was reunited with his children and grandchildren on Wednesday after serving 12 years in prison. I m full of joy, Winslow told CBS News. I m so happy, man. I got to be with my family last night once I was released, and I can t explain it. I m so happy.
In 2008, Winslow was homeless and living on the streets of Shreveport when he was approached by an undercover cop in search of marijuana, according to his attorneys at the Innocence Project New Orleans. They said Winslow borrowed a bike, returned with two dime bags of marijuana worth $20, and gave it to the officer for $5 so he could buy food. Winslow was arrested for distribution.