Man loses case, wins sympathy (FL Pain Meds Case-25 Yrs Upheld)

And Limpballs walked away from basically doing the same damn thing in spades.

He's been on 60 Minutes. A New York Times columnist has championed his cause. Even those who prosecuted and convicted Richard Paey sympathize with the wheelchair-bound man serving 25 years for drug trafficking - for obtaining the drugs he needs for his debilitating pain.

Count among those sympathizers the 2nd District Court of Appeal.

The problem, a majority of the court ruled Wednesday, is that they can't help Paey.

They upheld his conviction and sentence by a 2-1 vote, but passed on this advice: Get the governor to commute the sentence.

"Mr. Paey's argument about his sentences does not fall on deaf ears," Judge Douglas Wallace wrote, "but it falls on the wrong ears."

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