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Buckley, Broke and Now Behind Bars
posted (February 19, 2015)
Steven Buckley - in August of 2013, he received a hundred thousand dollars as partial compensation from government after police shot him for no reason. Well tonight, he is in jail - after he couldn't find a few hundred dollars to pay a fine for marijuana possession. The 42 year old appeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser today where he was arraigned on a charge of possession of an undetermined amount of cannabis. Buckley pleaded guilty and was fined $150 dollars. He was given until March 31 to pay the fine - which seemed manageable. But it turns out that he owed the court $360 dollars for two previous convictions for marijuana possession - which he hadn't paid. With that he was sent to prison to serve three months in default of payment of the $360 dollars.

In January, Buckley told us the government was endlessly delaying the case to settle the full compensation.

In 2010, Buckley was shot in the head by a police officer as he sat in a vehicle.

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