Dear Friend: Thank you for your letter regarding Richard Paey’s criminal conviction and incarceration. Governor Bush understands your concerns and asked me to respond on his behalf. As you may know, the Florida Constitution limits the Governor’s intervention [...]
Dec 10, 2006
By: Christine Heberle
Painreliefnetwork.org
RE: Richard Paey
Dear Governor Jeb Bush,
I am writing to you in regard to Richard Paey and the inhumane sentence he received. He has served approximately 3 years of his 25 year sentence. A sentence he received for violations of the CSA. He was found guilty for having his pain medication. A [...]
Dec 9, 2006
By: Richard Cranium
Painreliefnetwork.org
I want to go on record with many other sufferers of chronic pain in saying that you are making a mistake by your tunnel vision on this case, and your failure to date to intervene in a case that will go to far and put a pain patient into jail for [...]
Dec 8, 2006
By: Russell K. Portenoy MD
Painreliefnetwork.org
RE: Mr. Richard Paey
Dear Governor Bush:
I was informed that you will be asked to consider a request for clemency in the case of Mr. Richard Paey, a chronic pain patient who is currently in prison on drug charges. I am writing to express my support of [...]
Dec 16, 2003 By: Ronald T. Libby University of North Florida The Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 initiated the government’s “war on drugs.” The DEA’s mission was to “bring to the criminal and civil justice system [...]
Introduction
Article III of the US Constitution grants the Courts the power to say what the law is (see Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803)). It is settled constitutional law that the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments permit the Courts to interpret the word "liberty," and it is black-letter [...]
