#079 Jason Flom with Timothy Tyler
Wrongful Conviction
Lava for Good Podcasts
4.4 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2018
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Tim Tyler was sentenced to a mandatory life sentence in federal prison for selling LSD while traveling around the country following the Grateful Dead. He was 25 years old when he was sentenced and spent nearly half of his life behind bars. In 1991, Tim was arrested twice for selling LSD and received probation both times. Then, in May 1992, Tim sold marijuana and LSD to a confidential informant. He was arrested in August and charged along with three codefendants, including his father. Tim pled guilty to possession with intent to deliver LSD and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute LSD. In March 1994, Tim was sentenced to mandatory life without parole in federal prison. Tim’s codefendants received five- and 10-year sentences. Timothy’s father died in prison while serving his 10-year prison term. Tim’s life sentence was determined by two factors: his two prior drug offenses and the amount of LSD he was convicted of selling, which included the “carrier” weight of the paper the LSD was placed on. Ten grams or more of LSD (including the weight of the carrier) on a third offense triggers a mandatory minimum sentence of life in prison. Without the mandatory minimum, Timothy would have received a sentence of 262-327 months under the federal sentencing guidelines.
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| 0:00.0 | I've never been in trouble in my life. I didn't even have a parking ticket. I was brought up like cops or the good guys. |
| 0:09.0 | I didn't know what was going to happen, but I do know that everything was stacked against me. Everything, like everything. |
| 0:17.0 | This isn't supposed to happen this way. I'm innocent. I know I'm innocent. I know I had nothing to do with this. |
| 0:25.0 | How is this possible? |
| 0:28.0 | I grew up trusting the system. I grew up believing that every human being should do the right thing. |
| 0:33.0 | And that's why even though I knew I was dealing with corrupt people, I wasn't going to brave anyone to get me out of prison. |
| 0:39.0 | Because I wouldn't live with the fact that I brave my way out of my wife's death. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm not innocent to prove I'm guilty. I'm guilty until I prove my innocence and that's absolutely what happened to me. |
| 0:51.0 | Our system since I've been out 10 years, it's come a little ways, but it's still broken. |
| 0:56.0 | I totally lost trust in humanity after what happened to me. |
| 1:02.0 | This is wrong for convection. |
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