According to Green Aid's trial updates today, Ed Rosenthal faces a mandatory minimum five year sentence (not ten as we and others previously reported)--the jury found him not guilty of cultivation of over 1,000 plants, but guilty of the lesser included offense of cultivating more than 100 but less than 1,000 plants.

Also, the previous report that Ed is to be sentenced Tuesday is incorrect. He is scheduled to be sentenced on June 4.

The Court denied the prosecution's request to have Rosenthal held in custody until sentencing. The Court also said it would conduct it's own independent inquiry into the possibility of a downward departure. However, with a mandatory minimum sentence and no government motion to reduce the sentence for substantial assistance in the investigation or prosecution of others, that may be tough to do. Let's hope where there's a will, there's a way.

We reprinted Ed Rosenthal's statement on his convction earlier, but you can also access it directly through Green-Aid here.