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Black Louisiana man sentenced to life in prison for $20 of weed freed after 12 years
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Over 12 years after he was sentenced to life in prison for selling undercover cops two dime bags of weed, a Louisiana man walked free Wednesday.
Fate Winslow, a 53-year-old Black man, got the pitiless sentence in 2008, New Orleans CBS affiliate WWL reported. The life sentence was legally possible because the marijuana distribution was Winslow’s fourth nonviolent offense.
Shortly after losing his Shreveport home in 2008, Winslow was approached by two undercover cops who asked him where to buy weed, according to a 2013 American Civil Liberties Union report that first highlighted his case. ....

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