Thursday, July 7, 2011
National Skyline Texas Judge Refuses Plea Deal for Alleged Pot Possessor Willie Nelson
Posted by Adam Gold on Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:15 PM
- Image courtesty of Texas
- Hide your kids. Hide your wife.
As you may recall, last November the living legend was, quite unluckily, busted by Border Patrol agents in the land of wide open spaces while allegedly possessing six ounces of marijuana — or as he might like to call it, breakfast. And now he might have a hard time catching a break.
Unsympathetic Hudspeth County Judge Becky Dean-Walker — or as I’m gonna call her, The Okie from Hudspeth — is, keeping references current, putting on a stern Nancy Grace face, and going full Maximum Bob on Nelson, rejecting a prosecutor’s proposed plea deal that would’ve slapped the country singer on the wrist with a $500 fine in exchange for a guilty plea.
Perhaps realizing that it would only take a single spliff toke to alleviate a wrist-slap’s burn, and not being cool with that, Judge Dean-Walker told AP that, since said prosecutor “doesn’t do that for anybody else,” she won’t allow it for Nelson, who she thinks is undeserving of special treatment.
I disagree.
I mean, yeah, I know that no man is above the law and all, yadda, yadda gavel-bang, but really? Dude founded Farm Aid for fuck’s sake. And he’s gone on the road, playing Texas towns again, and again, and again for, like, half-a-century — putting on concerts that have got to benefit the state’s regional economy more than the potential year in jail a misdemeanor marijuana possession charge might saddle him with would.
So, Texas, speaking as a character witness, I implore you — Free Willie!
Because this is the worst thing that might happen:
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