A man that cares about 5 children and his ill wife serves 5 months in prison

The laws which criminalize usage of anabolic steroids have appeared due to certain conditions. They turned out to be responses to widespread administration of steroids in competitive sports. Anti-Doping Agencies thought that prohibition of steroids would keep professional sportspersons far from usage of illegal products. But criminalization of steroids influenced on usage of steroids by competitive sportspersons insignificantly.
The steroid laws usually don’t prosecute sportspeople that administrate illegal preparations. On the contrary, non-competitive sportspersons and recreational bodybuilders are usually targets of the steroid laws. They suffer due to consequences of violation of these laws.
This is not only one’s point of view. Real facts display it. Let think: who is sentenced to imprisonment because of distributing steroids? For example, Ashley Dewayne Rivers of Alabama received 5 months in jail because he had sold about $2000 worth of steroids to a physician. In fact, this person was not 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 talked to federal investigators that her husband was involved in operations of black steroid market. So, the statement of this woman led to the situation, when the physician was investigated.
In fact, Rivers was a distributor of steroids for short period of time. This person supplied his friends of his gym with these medicines. James Robinson, the defense attorney for Ashley Rivers, said that his client had understood his guilty totally and taken the total responsibility for his illegal actions.  The attorney noted that Rivers was a good man. Although he violated the steroid laws, he recognized the risks and admitted to his guilty.
The attorney James Robinson asked the judge to sentence his client just to probation.  Ashley Rivers cared about his physically impaired wife, 2 children that were adopted by him  and 3 children of his disabled brother. Furthermore, Rivers gave about 40, 000 dollars for persons that lost their homes due to tornadoes. It would be better, if this man were sentenced to probation. He would continue his work for his family and other individuals.
But Christopher Brinson, the Assistant U. S. Attorney, rejected the request of James Robinson. He claimed that this man committed a serious crime and he must serve time in jail. However the judge was inclined to agree with the request of the defense attorney James Robinson  at the beginning, finally he made the decision to agree with the Assistant U.S. Attorney and sentenced Ashley Rivers to 5 months in jail.
You can realize that steroid laws have just a slight influence on professional sportspersons.