MAN USING PAINKILLERS DOES NOT DESERVE PRISON SENTENCE

Re: Richard Paey

Editor: Justice must truly be blind!

This man, in chronic pain most of us cannot begin to imagine, was unable to
find medical help to ease unbearable pain. He did not sell any medication,
even the prosecutor admitted he used the pills himself. Is he a threat to
society to be sentenced to 25 years in prison? Hardly.

He is in prison on a morphine pump and suffering from multiple sclerosis.
The law should not be so black and white that because of the amount of pain
medication he obtained for himself that his punishment is more severe than
a drug dealer selling cocaine to our children. Wake up, and let this man go
home. My sympathy to his family at this travesty of justice.

- -- Ann Marie Kreger, Port Richey