Sender: To: X-Original-Message-ID: <000501bf3253$c938cb00$9acf69cf@pacbell.net> From: "Peter McWilliams" Subject: McWilliams and McCormick to plea Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 22:03:20 -0800 X-Mozilla-Status: 9001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 19, 1999 McWilliams and McCormick to Plead Guilty Peter McWilliams and Todd McCormick will be pleading guilty to federal charges against them in exchange for more lenient sentencing. The pleas will be entered on Friday, November 18, 1999, in the courtroom of Judge George King, Roybal Federal Building, Los Angeles at 2:00 PM. We had no place else to go, said defendant Peter McWilliams. We couldn’t present our medical marijuana defense, so we would be automatically found guilty, taken into custody on the spot, and begin serving a mandatory 10-year sentence. By pleading guilty, we take the crime out of the mandatory-minimum category and permit the judge to use compassion in his sentencing. We believe Judge King will do just that. The medical condition of the defendants can be presented to the judge at a sentencing hearing to be held in approximately two months. The precise wording of the charges is still being negotiated.