Missouri Man’s Life Sentence for Marijuana is Commuted
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Governor Jay Nixon commuted the sentence for Missouri’s only man serving life in prison for non-violent marijuana-related offenses. Jeff Mizanskey, now 62, was arrested during an undercover drug bust in Sedalia in 1993. He was sentenced in 1996 under the state’s Prior and Persistent Drug Offender Law, which is a three-strike system. FOX 2 Now reported that at the time of Mizanskey’s arrest, police were after a drug dealer who hired two men to smuggled more than [...]