SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - A Washington state man who has been waiting nine years to be sentenced on a marijuana conviction has been sentenced to six months in prison.
The Spokesman-Review reported that Brice Davis had faced up to 15 years in federal prison after he was charged in 2011, shortly before marijuana became legal in Washington.
But U.S. District Court Judge Frem Nielsen on Wednesday sentenced Davis to six months in prison, plus three years of supervised release.
Davis was one of seven codefendants initially indicted on federal charges after police discovered a Spokane County marijuana grow in November 2011.
Police arrested them a full year before Washington voters approved the legal cultivation, sale and possession of marijuana in small amounts.
During the search nine years ago, detectives found eight pounds of pot and 1,000 plants at the illegal grow operation. In court Wednesday, the prosecution argued that the presence of a gun on the property showed the potential for crimes to escalate, and Davis’ prior marijuana possession charge in Utah indicated to the government that Davis was not above criminal use of the plant.
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