Tommy Chong May Appeal Prison Sentence
Posted on Sat Sep 20, 2003 at 10:19:10 AM EST
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Actor and comedian Tommy Chong, sentenced last week to 9 months in prison for selling bongs on the Internet, may appeal his sentence.
The grounds: the Judge based the sentence on "the character he played and not the person he is."
"The United States attorney made a big deal about Tommy's movies and how he portrayed drug usage and law enforcement," Stanton B. Levenson said Friday. "We didn't think it would be appropriate to consider his public persona. ... That's not him."
Levenson said attorneys were still researching possible appeal issues, but they were concerned that U.S. District Judge Arthur J. Schwab didn't separate Chong from the hippie stoner he portrayed in movies he made with comedy partner Cheech Marin. An appeal notice was filed Friday.
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