Rivers Ashley, a man who cares about 5 children and his physically impaired wife, has been sentenced to imprisonment for selling steroids

The laws which ban usage of anabolic steroids have appeared due to certain conditions. They turned out to be responses to widespread usage of steroids in competitive sports. Anti-Doping Agencies hoped that prohibition of steroids would keep professional sportspeople far from usage of illegal medications. But criminalization of steroids influenced on intake of steroids by competitive sportspersons insignificantly.
The steroid laws commonly don’t prosecute sportspeople who use illegal medicines. On the contrary, non-competitive athletes and recreational bodybuilders are usually targets of the steroid laws. They suffer due to consequences of breaking these laws.
This is not just one’s point of view. This is reality. Let realize: who is sentenced to prison because of distributing steroids? For example, Ashley Dewayne Rivers of Alabama was sentenced to 5 months in jail because he had sold about $2000 worth of steroids to a health care provider. In fact, this individual wasn’t the target of a steroid investigation. He only turned out to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The estranged wife of this physician said to federal investigators that her husband was involved in operations of black steroid market. So, the affirmation of this lady led to the situation, when the physician was investigated.
Actually, Ashley Rivers was a distributor of steroids for short time. This person sold these medicines to his friends. James Robinson, the defense attorney for Ashley Rivers, confirmed that his client had recognized his guilty totally and taken the whole responsibility for his illegal operations. The attorney stated that Rivers was a moral individual. However he broke the steroid laws, he realized the risks and acknowledged his guilty.
James Robinson asked the judge to sentence his client only to probation. Ashley Rivers cared about his wheelchair-bound wife, 2 children that were adopted by him and 3 children of his disabled brother. Moreover, this man sacrificed about 40, 000 dollars for people that lost their homes due to tornadoes. It would be better, if this person were sentenced to probation. This person would continue his work for his family and other people.
But Christopher Brinson, the Assistant U. S. Attorney, rejected the request of James Robinson. He stated that this person committed a serious crime and he has to serve time in prison. However the judge was inclined to agree with the request of the defense attorney James Robinson at the beginning, finally he decided to agree with the Assistant U.S. Attorney and sentenced Rivers to 5-month imprisonment.
You can see that steroid laws have just a slight influence on professional sportspeople.