If 3 years is the minimum for Tommy's offense, I hope the judge throws the book @ him & gives him the max. He has gone on with his life for over a year, knowing what he does about Haleigh. If her death & whatever part he played, didn't make a changed man out of him, nothing will. That should've scared him straight & made him a better father & husband. But it didn't. He turned around & got busted for drugs again & again. But now that he's looking @ some prison time, he's ready to straighten up. ummmm hmmmm. He'll serve his time & then be back out on the streets in no time.Tommy's lawyer is basing his optimism on the amount of drugs involved in the arrests. Tommy was charged with more than 4 grams but less than 14 grams. Mandatory minimum is 3 years. Hope was charged with more than 14 grams but less than 28 grams. Mandatory minimum is 15 years.
Florida Drug Trafficking Statutes 893.135(3)
(c)1. Any person who knowingly sells, purchases, manufactures, delivers, or brings into this state, or who is knowingly in actual or constructive possession of, 4 grams or more of any morphine, opium, oxycodone, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, or any salt, derivative, isomer, or salt of an isomer thereof, including heroin, as described in s. 893.03(1)(b), (2)(a), (3)(c)3., or (3)(c)4., or 4 grams or more of any mixture containing any such substance, but less than 30 kilograms of such substance or mixture, commits a felony of the first degree, which felony shall be known as "trafficking in illegal drugs," punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084. If the quantity involved:
a. Is 4 grams or more, but less than 14 grams, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 3 years, and the defendant shall be ordered to pay a fine of $50,000.
b. Is 14 grams or more, but less than 28 grams, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 15 years, and the defendant shall be ordered to pay a fine of $100,000.
c. Is 28 grams or more, but less than 30 kilograms, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 25 calendar years and pay a fine of $500,000.
http://www.flsenate.gov/statutes/in...arch_String=trafficking&URL=Ch0893/Sec135.HTM