Michigan inmate serving 60-year sentence for selling weed requests clemency Michael Thompson has been in prison since 1996 for selling weed to an informant.
A Michigan man serving a 60-year prison sentence for selling marijuana to an informant is taking a second chance to ask for clemency from the governor.
Thompson, then 45, was arrested during the drug sale where no weapons were recovered on him or in his vehicle.
Because of Thompson's past convictions, the trial judge rendered the maximum sentence for each drug charge to run concurrently.
Michael Thompson, now 68, who has been in prison in the Muskegon Correctional Facility in Michigan, is serving a 40 to 60 year sentence for selling marijuana to an informant.
That same year Michigan voted to legalize recreational use of marijuana -- an offense Thompson spent 23 years in prison for.
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