How 101 Feet Added 10 Years to My Husband's Sentence

Joi Davis' husband was arrested for selling cocaine from their Nashville apartment in 2003, and she sees part of his punishment as entirely unjust. 

That's because had he sold it 101 feet away from where he did—"in an apartment down the hall, for example"—his 22-years-without-parole sentence would have been 10 years lighter and included the possibility of parole after 4 years

In a piece for the Tennessean, she writes that Terrance Davis got caught up in what she sees as a draconian mandatory sentence related to drug-free school zones. She explains the gated apartment community they lived in at the time of the then-24-year-old's crime sat 900 feet from a school and within the law's 1,000-foot zone. "It did not matter that the school was not open. It did not matter that Terrance was inside his own home, with no children around."

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