US Supreme Court mulls taking case of man given life for pot

US Supreme Court mulls taking case of man given life for pot

The US Supreme Cloister was accepted to accede on Friday whether to acquire the case of an aged disabled adept bedevilled to activity in bastille afterwards growing marijuana that he acclimated to abate abiding pain.

Under guidelines in Alabama for accepted abomination offenders, Lee Brooker was accustomed a activity book after achievability of parole, the a lot of astringent abuse in the southern accompaniment abbreviate of the afterlife penalty.

Brooker, built-in in 1939 and who according to US account letters is 75 years old, was bedevilled added than 20 years ago for armed robbery in Florida and served 10 years in prison.

In 2011, badge investigating baseborn bicycles stumbled assimilate three dozen marijuana plants abaft the home in Dothan, Alabama that Brooker aggregate with his son.

Although Brooker said the marijuana was for his claimed alleviative use, accompaniment law dictates that bedevilled felons in control of added than 2.2 pounds (one kilogram) of marijuana accept activity imprisonment after parole, behindhand of whether there was absorbed to advertise or distribute.

The marijuana calm at Brooker's home advised 2.8 pounds, if including abstract locations of the bulb such as the stems.

Brooker has appealed his book to the top court, citation the Eighth Amendment that bans "cruel and abnormal punishment."

The Supreme Cloister is accepted to advertise in the advancing canicule whether it will add Brooker's case to its calendar.

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