The laws that ban usage of anabolic steroids have appeared because of certain conditions. They turned out to be responses to widespread usage of steroids in competitive sports. Anti-Doping Agencies believed that prohibition of steroids would keep professional athletes far from usage of illegal products. But criminalization of steroids influenced on intake of steroids by competitive sportspersons slightly.
The steroid laws usually don’t prosecute sportspeople that use illegal preparations. On the contrary, non-competitive athletes and recreational bodybuilders are usually targets of the steroid laws. They suffer due to results of violation of these laws.
This is not just one’s opinion. This is reality. Let see: who is sentenced to imprisonment because of distributing steroids? For example, Ashley Dewayne Rivers of Alabama received 5 months in jail because he had sold about $2000 worth of steroids to a health care provider. In fact, this individual was not the target of a steroid investigation. He only turned out to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The estranged wife of this doctor said to federal investigators that her husband was involved in operations of black steroid market. So, the statement of this lady led to the situation, when the health care provider was investigated.
Actually, Ashley Rivers was a dealer of steroids for short time. This man supplied his friends of his gym with these medicines. James Robinson, the defense attorney for Ashley Rivers, said that his client had understood his guilty totally and taken the total responsibility for his illegal actions. The attorney noticed that Rivers was a moral man. Although he violated the steroid laws, he realized the dangers and admitted to his guilty.
The attorney for Rivers Ashley asked the judge to sentence Rivers Ashley just to probation. Rivers cared about his physically impaired wife, 2 adopted children and 3 children of his disabled brother. Furthermore, this man gave about 40, 000 dollars for persons that lost their homes due to tornadoes. It would be better, if this man were sentenced to probation. He would continue his work for his family and other people.
But Christopher Brinson, the Assistant U. S. Attorney, refused the request of the defense attorney James Robinson. He stated that Rivers committed a serious crime and he must serve time in jail. However the judge was inclined to agree with the request of the defense attorney James Robinson at the beginning, finally he decided to agree with the Assistant U.S. Attorney and sentenced Rivers to 5-month imprisonment.
You may realize that steroid laws have just a slight influence on professional sportspeople.
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