Political Quotes

“as some people here know, I spent 7\1/2\ years as a criminal court judge in Tennessee trying felony criminal cases, the burglaries, the rapes, the armed robberies, the murder cases, the drug cases, the most serious cases. As everyone can imagine, I saw many very sad things during those years. However, one of the saddest cases involved what was then, and may still be, the biggest drug case every to hit the city of Knoxville. Four young people brought 72,000 hits of LSD from California and were arrested in a raid at the Hilton Hotel. One of the four was a very beautiful young woman, just 1 month past her 18th birthday. She testified that she started with marijuana in the 7th grade, and because she handled that with no problem, she went on to cocaine in the 9th grade and heroin in the 10th grade. She then left home and started following a band called the Grateful Dead. She became part of a subculture called the Deadheads. They used her for a couple of years or so until she ran out of money in California and started living on the beach and having to beg for money and beg for food. Then she got involved in selling drugs. She came to Knoxville, got caught and had to spend 12 years of a nonprobatable sentence in the Tennessee Penitentiary for Women. After she was arrested, she found out she was pregnant, and she had twins which were delivered while she was incarcerated and had to be turned over to the State of Connecticut where she was originally from.…”