Title: When Will Justice Be Blind ?
Tags: Sherry Johnston, OxyContin, Prison, Special Treatment
Blog Entry: "Justice Is Blind", this is a quote we hear everyday, this is a quote we wish were true, this is a quote that we know is not true. A few days before Christmas Sherry Johnston was released from an Alaskan prison and allowed to serve her sentence at home with electronic monitoring device. How many persons of color sentenced on their first offense would be provided the same home confinement. I know I as a white woman in California I would not be given the same special treatment as Sherry Johnston has. The Prosecutor was bamboozled once by Sherry Johnston when she was given unusual travel permission to attend to something important, which turned out to be appearances on The Tyra Banks and Larry King Live shows. " Sherry Johnston will plead guilty in July to a single felony count of possessing the prescription painkiller OxyContin with the intent to sell it, her attorney, Rex Butler, said Thursday." " In exchange for her plea, the state has agreed to drop five other drug-related charges against the 42-year-old Wasilla woman, who is the other grandmother to Gov. Sarah Palin's grandson Tripp." http://www.adn.com/matsu/story/804557.html " She was sentenced last month to three years in jail and three years' probation for dealing the prescription painkiller OxyContin. She had been jailed at Hiland Mountain Correctional Center in Eagle River since August." "Sherry Johnston is under "intensive monitoring," he said. He said state corrections officers are responsible for enforcing her house arrest, which includes a condition she be near a land line at all times, except for four hours a week when she can leave home." http://www.adn.com/front/story/1067906.html " Prosecutor Roman Kalytiak said he thought Johnston needed to attend to something important that justified the unusual travel permission given to someone on bail facing felony drug charges." " If the Palmer District Attorney knew Sherry Johnston was leaving Alaska to appear on "The Tyra Banks Show" and "Larry King Live," he would not have signed off on the trips." http://www.adn.com/front/story/772281.html
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