FREE JEFF MIZANSKEY? NO!

Missouri dope dealer serving life in prison wants out claiming he thought a marijuana brick contained home-made Mexican food

BarkGrowlBite | July 12, 2014

Jeff Mizanskey has been in a Missouri prison for 21 years. He received a life sentence after being convicted of possessing (five pounds) marijuana with intent to distribute. He was caught in a sting operation with three others during which he handled a brick of marijuana and indicated he would get $10,000 to buy a load of bricks two of the others had been caught with and were thus cooperating with the cops.

During his time in prison, Mizanskey has gained a large following of sympathizers who are demanding his release from prison because he is serving a sentence for “nonviolent, marijuana-only charges.” His supporters say he is Missouri’s only inmate “sentenced to death in prison for pot.” They have put up big billboards in his behalf. Mizanskey has conned his supporters into believing that he is the victim of an over-zealous prosecutor and a biased judge.

Mizanskey himself is pleading with people to write Missouri Governor Jay Nixon asking that be granted parole. On Wednesday, he released the following statement through the Riverfront Times:

I've been sitting in prison going on 21 years for a nonviolent crime. I still have not heard much of anything from the governor. I was told by Tony [Nenninger], my lawyer, that he talked to one of the governor's men and was told that there have been around 1,000 calls and about 100 letters since, as well as 470,000 signatures on the petition.

Thank you all for what you have done. Unfortunately, Tony also told me that the governor pays more attention to letters most of all. So now I have to come back to you all and ask for more help. If you can find a few minutes to send a short letter to the governor, I know it would help. I don't have anyone else to ask but all of you. Thank you all again. Please write and call the governor.

Here is my suggestion for anyone who may be contemplating writing to Gov. Nixon: Find something more important to do! However, if you insist on writing the governor, ask him to keep that dope-dealing con-artist locked up!

Mizanskey is the only prisoner in the world serving a life sentence for handling a package of Mexican food. After he got busted, he told investigators he thought the brick of marijuana was a package of home-made Mexican food. That whopper alone calls for a life sentence.