Trading guns for drugs
Odd:
A man who had drugs and weapons inside his home is going to jail. Alvin Maxwell has been sentenced to 17 months in prison. He pleaded guilty to importing and manufacturing weapons at his home . In exchange, the drug charges were dropped.
Police would rather get a gun conviction?
June 19th, 2006 at 12:24 am
Presumably, its the DA that made the call with regard to the plea deal. I would also assume that they had a punishment in mind and negotiated from there. From the defendants point of view, a weapons charge may be preferable to a drug charge as the drug charge includes a lot of things like not being able to get financial aid when going to college, etc.