California Judge to decide on white supremacist in prison in need of liver transplant

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- The federal government has asked a judge to deny a liver transplant to an accused prison gang leader who could face the death penalty.

If he was a Black Panther the federal government would move to give him the transplant and release him.

Ronald "Joey" Sellers, 41, is charged with racketeering for crimes allegedly committed as head of the Aryan Warriors, a white supremacist gang, the Las Vegas Sun reports. He is being held at Terminal Island in Southern California while federal prosecutors decide whether to seek the death penalty in his case.

In a brief filed with U.S. District Judge Kent Dawson, prosecutors say doctors at a Los Angeles hospital recently determined Sellers was not a good candidate for a transplant.

Sellers' lawyers say he is likely to die before he is tried unless he gets a transplant. He says he contracted hepatitis C while he was an inmate in state prisons in Nevada.

"The defendant is quite ill from his end-stage liver failure," the lawyer said in court papers. "He is severely bloated, has a massive hernia so large that a fist-size portion of his intestines are protruding from his muscular

wall and he is in constant pain requiring medication in sufficient dosages that he risks addiction."

Prisoners in California get better medical care than regular people on the street. Somebody somewhere says they have rights. California is a joke.

http://www.times-standard.com/othervoices/ci_13134402

Quote:The prison system continues to be the biggest drain on California's budget. Billions of dollars come out of state coffers to meet every mental and medical need of prisoners according to the court's orders.

Quote:Oncology clinics often see prisoners get life-saving medical treatment while turning away other people who could not get treatment because their insurance wouldn't pay for it. Prisoners don't have to worry about that.

Quote:Another fact. California spends $45,000 per prison inmate a year, roughly five times what we spend per student in our public schools

(08-20-2009 11:36 AM)SumOfAllFears Wrote:  California Judge to decide on white supremacist in prison in need of liver transplant

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- The federal government has asked a judge to deny a liver transplant to an accused prison gang leader who could face the death penalty.

If he was a Black Panther the federal government would move to give him the transplant and release him.

Ronald "Joey" Sellers, 41, is charged with racketeering for crimes allegedly committed as head of the Aryan Warriors, a white supremacist gang, the Las Vegas Sun reports. He is being held at Terminal Island in Southern California while federal prosecutors decide whether to seek the death penalty in his case.

In a brief filed with U.S. District Judge Kent Dawson, prosecutors say doctors at a Los Angeles hospital recently determined Sellers was not a good candidate for a transplant.

Sellers' lawyers say he is likely to die before he is tried unless he gets a transplant. He says he contracted hepatitis C while he was an inmate in state prisons in Nevada.

"The defendant is quite ill from his end-stage liver failure," the lawyer said in court papers. "He is severely bloated, has a massive hernia so large that a fist-size portion of his intestines are protruding from his muscular

wall and he is in constant pain requiring medication in sufficient dosages that he risks addiction."

Wow. I didn't know SMN1256 was in prison. I hope he gets well soon. I see he has checked in. Must be a nice prison to have internet access.

SumOfAllFears Wrote:If he was a Black Panther the federal government would move to give him the transplant and release him.

Nahhh, if he had been a Black Panther, Eric Holder would have dismissed his charges and he wouldn't even be in prison.

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I swear this is some strange drug induced hallucination where Planes Fly over and drop Hallucinogenic Drugs onto us and we are all in a drug induced trip ordered by Father Barack.

This stuff just can not be real, I mean it honestly can't and those of us that can fight it off enough to see the reality behind the veil, are the lone voices that call out against the Father and his Lunatic Plots on "We The People".

Oh Father Barack, save us sinners now and at the time of or deaths (which you are causing).

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Death penalty? So he killed someone maliciously without a noble reason?

F'em.