Originally Posted by crockett

Actually he wasn't in jail for 17 years just for smoking pot. He tested positive for smoking pot while he was on "probation" for armed robbery.

"Tyrone Brown was a poor teenager with no criminal record when Judge Keith Dean initially put him on probation in 1990 for taking part in an armed robbery in which no one was hurt."

You go rob a store today and get out on probation and get caught breaking your probation and tell me that the judge isn't going to send to back to jail. Sure 17 years is a long time and much longer than he should have been in jail compared to todays sentences, but his original conviction was armed robbery.

You break probabtion and normally you go back and serve your full sentace.