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The Case Against Sam Hurd

Just spent about 30 minutes reading that. What a crazy story.

Tough to think he deserves life in prison. Locking him away for 10-15 years seems like plenty enough.
 
Sentencing is tomorrow. He won't get life in prison.

Sad story, but Hurd was a college educated adult with a multi-million dollar career playing football when he started buying mass quantities of drugs. He had options and has no excuse for going down the path he followed. He either knew or should have known that when he was buying drugs of that magnitude that it was a matter of time before he was busted or murdered. Once he was busted, he then continues communications with other known drug dealers? Dumb-ass.
 
BillBrasky said:
Just spent about 30 minutes reading that. What a crazy story.

Tough to think he deserves life in prison. Locking him away for 10-15 years seems like plenty enough.
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Yup, this. Although now I need to go Google the Darryl Henley case, don't seem to remember that one from the early 90s
 
A life sentence would be ridiculous. It seems to me that all he should be punished for is possession of one kilo and conspiracy to distribute cocaine.

The stuff about the weed is crazy because he was taking it from a place that he would have no problem getting a marijuana card given all of his injuries.
 
Any word on what time today he will get his sentence?
 
Some parts of his story are contradicting. He said "he had no clue what zetas are" but knew the guys at Morton's were members of "cartels or something..."
 
DeacsOrDie said:
Some parts of his story are contradicting. He said "he had no clue what zetas are" but knew the guys at Morton's were members of "cartels or something..."
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I don't think that's necessarily an issue. I knew what cartels were but had never heard of Zetas until reading this story this morning.
 
so the guy who is in posession of and distributing the cocaine (to hurd) gets no jail because he wears a badge (or works for those who do), but Hurd may get life and he never sold cocaine to anyone? his only crime appears to be that he's a congenial guy who had posession of an illicit substance for 5 minutes..

i just skimmed the article, do i have it right? also, funny how they arbitrarily pulled that escalade for a bogus reason. way to follow the constitution that you swore to uphold which specifically says you can't do that...

at least that menace to society is gonna get what he deserves. too bad we can't execute people for this like they do in North Korea.
 
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The issue is not the fact that he knew the definition of what a zeta is or not, but the fact that he initially claimed "I didn't initially know I was dealing with bad people (zeta)" then later admitting "I knew they were cartel people" which everyone knows are bad people. Denying culpability, then admitting culpability.
 
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i hope it isn't lost on people how fine a line these stings walk on entrapment. also, there were 22 LEos there? that's an assload of money spent to bust a non-violent, productive member of society who may have been trying to set up a one time thing simply to get the 88 grand the govt. "confiscated" (read stole) after he made a personal loan to a friend who he knew didn't make a lot of money himself.

eta: oh cool, he used to run a FB camp for autistic children. also, this has nothing to do with immigration or customs since everything they're accusing him of was within the U.S.. but keep up the hard work breaking the law in order to prevent other people from potentially breaking other laws!
 
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i, for one, feel much safer now. how much does it cost the taxpayer to feed and house him? or is it offset by the 32 cents an hour wage they pay inmates to work?
 
DeacsOrDie said:
The issue is not the fact that he knew the definition of what a zeta is or not, but the fact that he initially claimed "I didn't initially know I was dealing with bad people (zeta)" then later admitting "I knew they were cartel people" which everyone knows are bad people. Denying culpability, then admitting culpability.
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is that a crime?
 
dmcheatw said:
is that a crime?
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Accepting a kilo of cocaine is. Save your outrage for the small time users and dealers rather than the guy discussing trafficking 50 kilos of cocaine a week. 15 years might be too harsh but people like you acting as though nearly all drug crimes should go unpunished SERIOUSLY undermine any efforts to reduce existing sentences. No matter what other positive things Hurd has done he deserves to be in jail and even he admits that.
 
dmcheatw said:
i, for one, feel much safer now. how much does it cost the taxpayer to feed and house him? or is it offset by the 32 cents an hour wage they pay inmates to work?
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It costs approximately $25,000 per year to hold an inmate in custody in a BOP facility.

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