Political Weirdos

So normal that this knowledge became part of the sentencing process. I knew a guy who was in prison for some drug related charges. (Basically he grew up with no money in a bad part of town, while on some kind of a drug binge he killed a guy who was also on a drug binge and trying to kill him, so from his perspective he kinda woke up one day in prison and had no clue what happened during his binge and just had to take everyone else's word for what had gone down)

Anyways he was sentenced to something like 30 years for murder back in the 90s with the expectation that he'd be out in 10-15 years, but instead he spent years 20-23 of his sentence fighting tooth and nail to get parole, and in that process actually got the original judge to write a letter of recommendation where the judge specified he sentenced to 30 with the intention and expectation of him going on parole long before that point.

His life was truly a tragedy though, he ended up passing away from an undiagnosed heart condition less than a year after going on parole, and his wife was dying of something at the same time so his estranged brother had to handle the estate and ultimately he only got to live his best life for about 6 months.