12 Years in Prison for Using His Cell Phone While in Jail

Cops all the time allow an arrested person keep something that is contraband when entering a facility in order for them to add charges. I been there and seen it happen frequently.

tldr: it's the application of statutory sentencing with judicial discretion. the range is 3-15 years. the case was appealed all the way to the MS supreme court; quoting the article that quotes the presiding MS supreme court justice

>“Nash served his time for his previous convictions and stayed out of trouble with the law for many years. He has a wife and three children who rely on him. His crime was victimless, and the facts of the case lend themselves to an interpretation that his crime was accidental and likely caused by a failure of booking procedures,” King wrote. “Nash did not do anything nefarious with his phone, and he certainly did not hide his phone from law enforcement."

>“While I do not think this Court can find under the law that the trial court abused its discretion in sentencing, it is a case in which, in my opinion, both the prosecutor and the trial court should have taken a more rehabilitative, rather than punitive, stance.”

there's a good discussion in r/law about the case[1].

i often see people here complain about how opaque google is wrt handling customer complaints, or paypal in giving refunds, or youtube in taking down videos because of copyright strikes. imagine spending 12 years of your life in a cage because of an opaque system that you have no remedy from.

[1]https://old.reddit.com/r/law/comments/eouls4/in_mississippi_...

I’m never going to Mississippi...