Military Vet Sentenced to Life for $30 Cannabis Sale to Be Set Free

A military vet who was sentenced to life in prison for selling $30 worth of cannabis to an undercover Louisiana police officer was recently resentenced to time served and will be released from prison.

Derek Harris, a military veteran who was arrested in Louisiana in 2008 for selling an undercover officer .69 grams of cannabis – worth $30 – was recently resentenced to time served and will be released from prison, CNNreports. He was originally sentenced to life and has already served nine years.

Harris was initially sentenced to 15 years but was resentenced in 2012 to life under the state’s Habitual Offender Law. The state Supreme Court had agreed to hear his case, agreeing that he had “ineffective assistance of counsel at sentencing on post-conviction review.”