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| 18 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON for selling $69 real estate video tapes in the US. |
| First-time, non-violent offender and British citizen, Chantal McCorkle, has been serving this sentence for 10 years in the US, far from home. She is not eligible for a razor wire-free, less-secure prison camp because she is not an American citizen. On the contrary, Chantal's ex-husband and co-defendant, resides near his family in an open prison camp. He is an American citizen and will be released before Chantal. Same charges. Same sentence? |
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Criminal or Victim? Sentenced to a mandatory 24 years imprisonment in 1999 for an Infomercial Fraud, Chantal McCorkle remains in jail to this day. Our consciences are clear when we say "this is NOT Justice". But, you decide for yourself. Was she failed by a legal system which missed the truth at every turn or guilty as charged? The fact remains that Chantal is serving a sentence that a murderer may not face. Whatever you conclude, you must agree: the punishment does not fit the crime! |
Decide for yourself if Chantal deserves to spend even one more day in prison! Read her appeal brief and the letter from Sir Menzies Campbell asking President Bush to pardon Chantal in the Legal section. Read Cosmopolitan articles and BBC News transcripts in Media. Read Chantal's story "In Her Own Words"... Read more about this case and you, too, will be outraged that American justice can be so horrifically unjust. |
| "What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Murderers Get Less Time "Murderers get less time. Someone could bring in three freighters of marijuana and get less time. The judge didn't want to hear it, and this is the result." - Mark Horwitz, Chantal's Defence Attorney in the US We must speak out! A democracy must protest injustice. Please get involved. |