99 Year Drug Sentence Upheld

The Sixth Court of Appeals in Texarkana has upheld the 99- year prison sentence given by an Upshur County jury to a woman who pleaded guilty to possession of more than 4 but less than 200 grams of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver. Thirty-nine-year-old Felisha Diane Williams of Tyler had turned down the prosecution’s offer of a 20-year sentence, when she chose a jury trial to decide her punishment.