Thursday asking the state Supreme Court to reconsider its prior ruling on a sentence that the legal advocacy group called"disproportionate" and a violation of the constitutional prohibition against"cruel and unusual" punishment.
"There is no evidence that he concealed the phone; rather, it is a virtual certainty that Nash was not searched in accordance with jail policy," the court filing says."There is still time to right this injustice. Nash’s astonishing sentence is grossly disproportionate to the act for which he stands convicted. It is cruel and unusual."
Justice Leslie D. King, however, wrote in the opinion that all inmates being booked into jail are strip-searched,"yet Nash went into the jail with a large smartphone that would have likely been impossible to hide during a strip search."
Put the workers on. Are too for letting him in with the cell phone.. they didn’t do their job correctly
If Obama had a son....blah blah blah
This is an absolutely ridiculous sentence for the crime. We have got to get this figured out. My ex abused me and he got probation. Most abusers do. My friends ex just killed her. But a phone in a cell is 12 years - this isn’t hard that it’s ridiculous and stealing a life
Good. This sentencing was unconscionable.
Thank you so very much. This is a despicable story and,hopefully, you can make this right. He has 3 children!
That smells so wrong? Why didn’t it confiscated upon entry like all other possessions? Looks like something that was planned by authorities.
The Southern Poverty Law Center is calling for a new hearing for a Mississippi man sentenced to 12 years in prison for possessing a cellphone in a county jail. WillieNash, 39, was being held at the Newton County Jail in 2018 on a misdemeanor charge when he asked a guard if it..