{"id":3885,"date":"2016-05-02T03:27:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T08:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candoclemency.com\/?p=3885"},"modified":"2022-08-19T14:43:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T19:43:31","slug":"can-founder-amy-povah-reason-magazine-drug-conspiracy-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/can-founder-amy-povah-reason-magazine-drug-conspiracy-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Povah in Reason Magazine on Drug Conspiracy Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amy Povah started CAN-DO to not only promote and spotlight people seeking clemency, she included her \"whitedesire to educate the public about the conspiracy law in the CAN-DO mission statement. \u00a0It hasn’t been easy because reporters typically have never heard about it and\/or don’t understand it enough to want to research it thoroughly. \u00a0Conspiracy to murder dates back to 1861, but in 1994, in U.S. V Shabani,<\/a> the\u00a0U.S. Supreme Court ruled that no “overt act” element is required under the federal drug conspiracy statute, 21 U.S.C. section 846.<\/p>\n

On April 29, 2016, Lauren Krisai, Director of criminal justice reform at Reason Foundation, wrote\u00a0How Conspiracy Laws Let Prosecutors Abuse Their Power<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Any meaningful criminal justice reform must include<\/p>\n

\"Amy<\/a>
Amy Povah with clemency recipients Jason Hernandez and Jeff Mizanskey at CAN-DO White House vigil seeking clemency for others<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

a reexamination of these draconian policies.<\/p>\n

In this article, Krisai does a fabulous job explaining how the conspiracy law can ensnare minor participants in a drug related activity in an effort to force their cooperation, or hold them responsible for the actions of other drug dealers up and down the chain of a larger drug enterprise. \u00a0The only way to escape indictment, is to become a working informant – as was the edict given to CAN-DO Founder Amy Povah (formerly Amy Pofahl) due to her then husband, Sandy Pofahl’s Ecstacy organization. \u00a0The only way to receive a sentence reduction is if a cooperating witness provides “substantial assistance.” \u00a0The article starts off with Amy’s case:<\/p>\n

Amy Povah was just 30 years old when she was sentenced to 24 years in federal prison for a drug crime she didn\u2019t even commit herself. <\/a>The crime\u2014manufacturing a large amount of ecstasy in both the United States and Germany\u2014was committed by her then-husband, Sandy Pofahl. Her lengthy prison sentence was based on the entire amount of ecstasy Pofahl manufactured, even though five co-defendants provided affidavits stating Amy was not involved in his drug trade.<\/p>\n

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Amy Povah started CAN-DO to not only promote and spotlight people seeking clemency, she included her desire to educate the public about the conspiracy law in the CAN-DO mission statement. \u00a0It hasn’t been easy because reporters typically have never heard about it and\/or don’t understand it enough to want to research it thoroughly. \u00a0Conspiracy to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,4],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-3885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-can-do-media","category-can-do-news","tag-can-do-foundation"],"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/reasons.png",310,298,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Amy Ralston Povah","author_link":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/author\/candoamy\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":40,"name":"CAN-DO in the Media","slug":"can-do-media","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":40,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":199,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":40,"category_count":199,"category_description":"","cat_name":"CAN-DO in the Media","category_nicename":"can-do-media","category_parent":0},{"term_id":4,"name":"CAN-DO News","slug":"can-do-news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":4,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":224,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":4,"category_count":224,"category_description":"","cat_name":"CAN-DO News","category_nicename":"can-do-news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":27,"name":"CAN-DO Foundation","slug":"can-do-foundation","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":27,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":461,"filter":"raw"}],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":40,"label":"CAN-DO in the Media"},{"value":4,"label":"CAN-DO News"}],"post_tag":[{"value":27,"label":"CAN-DO Foundation"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14896,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions\/14896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}