Kangaroo Court
June, 2003
Many Americans first heard of marijuana grower Ed Rosenthal this past February, when the jury that convicted him of three felonies (growing more than 100 plants, conspiring to cultivate and maintaining a growing operation) demanded that its verdict be overturned. Five panelists and an alternate stood on the steps of the federal courthouse in San Francisco and said they had been duped into sending a man who was not a criminal to prison.What the hell happened?Seven years earlier, California voters...
