Unfair decisions of courts

The laws which ban intake of anabolic steroids have appeared due to certain conditions. They turned out to be responses to widespread usage of steroids in competitive sports. Anti-Doping Agencies believed that ban of steroids would keep professional athletes far from usage of illegal medicines. But criminalization of steroids influenced on intake of steroids by competitive sportspersons slightly.
The steroid laws usually don’t prosecute athletes that use illegal drugs. 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 only one’s point of view. This is reality. Let think: who is sentenced to imprisonment because of distributing steroids? For example, Ashley Dewayne Rivers of Alabama was sentenced to 5-month imprisonment because he had sold about $2000 worth of steroids to a health care provider. Actually, this person wasn’t 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 health care provider said to federal investigators that her husband was involved in operations of black steroid market. Thus, the statement of this woman led to the situation, when the health care provider was investigated.
In fact, Rivers was a dealer of steroids for short period of time. This man supplied his friends of his gym with these medicines. James Robinson, the defense attorney for Ashley Rivers, claimed that his client had recognized his guilty totally and taken the total responsibility for his illegal operations. The attorney noticed that Rivers was a moral person. However he violated the steroid laws, he recognized the dangers and acknowledged his guilty.
The attorney James Robinson asked the judge to sentence Rivers Ashley just to probation. Rivers cared about his physically impaired wife, 2 children that were adopted by him and 3 children of his disabled brother. Moreover, Ashley Rivers sacrificed about 40, 000 dollars for individuals that lost their homes because of tornadoes. It would be better, if this man were sentenced to probation. This person would continue to 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 this person committed a serious crime and he should serve time in prison. Although the judge was inclined to agree with the request of the defense attorney at the beginning, finally he decided to agree with the Assistant U.S. Attorney and sentenced Ashley Rivers to 5 months in prison.
You may realize that steroid laws have just a slight influence on professional athletes.