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Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 10
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From: "D. Paul Stanford" <stanford@crrh.org>
To: restore@crrh.org
Subject: CA: Marijuana Distributor Gets 27 Years
Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.2.20001203103530.045dee70@mail.olywa.net>
Newshawk: Jo-D and Tom-E
Pubdate: Sat, 02 Dec 2000
Source: Press Democrat, The (CA)
Copyright: 2000 The Press Democrat
Contact: letters@pressdemo.com
Address: Letters Editor, P. O. Box 569, Santa Rosa CA 95402
Fax: (707) 521-5305
Feedback: Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Bay Area Newspaper, CA news
Website: Home, Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Bay Area Newspaper, CA news
Forum: Home, Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Bay Area Newspaper, CA news
Author: Mike Geniella, The Press Democrat
MARIJUANA DISTRIBUTOR GETS 27 YEARS
A federal judge Friday imposed a 27-year prison term on a Mendocino County
man who was earlier convicted of heading up a marijuana cultivation ring.
Judge Susan Illston also fined John Dalton, 45, of Redwood Valley $165,000.
Dalton's sentencing capped a controversial 1996 case that involved one of
the largest marijuana distribution operations in North Coast history,
alleged witness tampering, and a judge's finding that a federal drug agent
had acted improperly by engaging in a relationship with Dalton's wife.
During pretrial hearings in 1999 involving Dalton's case, Illston found
that drug agent Mark Nelson had gone too far in persuading the defendant's
wife to install a tape recorder in their bed as part of a three-year
federal investigation of the marijuana cultivation ring. During the
hearings, Nelson admitted drinking beer and kissing Virginia Horstman,
Dalton's wife, during an encounter at a DEA safe house in Ukiah.
Illston refused to allow government prosecutors to use the tapes against
Dalton during his subsequent trial.
Despite the setback to the government's case, a federal jury convicted
Dalton of six marijuana-growing related charges and for obstructing justice.
On Friday, Illston sentenced Dalton to the 27-year prison term and ordered
a five-year period of supervised release when he is paroled.
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53 -0800From: "D. Paul Stanford" <stanford@crrh.org>
To: restore@crrh.org
Subject: CA: Marijuana Distributor Gets 27 Years
Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.2.20001203103530.045dee70@mail.olywa.net>
Newshawk: Jo-D and Tom-E
Pubdate: Sat, 02 Dec 2000
Source: Press Democrat, The (CA)
Copyright: 2000 The Press Democrat
Contact: letters@pressdemo.com
Address: Letters Editor, P. O. Box 569, Santa Rosa CA 95402
Fax: (707) 521-5305
Feedback: Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Bay Area Newspaper, CA news
Website: Home, Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Bay Area Newspaper, CA news
Forum: Home, Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Bay Area Newspaper, CA news
Author: Mike Geniella, The Press Democrat
MARIJUANA DISTRIBUTOR GETS 27 YEARS
A federal judge Friday imposed a 27-year prison term on a Mendocino County
man who was earlier convicted of heading up a marijuana cultivation ring.
Judge Susan Illston also fined John Dalton, 45, of Redwood Valley $165,000.
Dalton's sentencing capped a controversial 1996 case that involved one of
the largest marijuana distribution operations in North Coast history,
alleged witness tampering, and a judge's finding that a federal drug agent
had acted improperly by engaging in a relationship with Dalton's wife.
During pretrial hearings in 1999 involving Dalton's case, Illston found
that drug agent Mark Nelson had gone too far in persuading the defendant's
wife to install a tape recorder in their bed as part of a three-year
federal investigation of the marijuana cultivation ring. During the
hearings, Nelson admitted drinking beer and kissing Virginia Horstman,
Dalton's wife, during an encounter at a DEA safe house in Ukiah.
Illston refused to allow government prosecutors to use the tapes against
Dalton during his subsequent trial.
Despite the setback to the government's case, a federal jury convicted
Dalton of six marijuana-growing related charges and for obstructing justice.
On Friday, Illston sentenced Dalton to the 27-year prison term and ordered
a five-year period of supervised release when he is paroled.
_____________________________________________
Distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in
receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.
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