Orville (Lee) Wollard: Defends Family-Serving 20 Years Mandatory
Lee was trying to protect his family Orville (Lee) Wollard is serving a 20 year mandatory minimum sentence for protecting his family against a violent individual in his Florida home by firing a warning shot. Nobody was injured or hit. But unless Governor Rick Scott grants him clemency, Lee will be in prison until he's 73. In the spring of 2008, Lee and his wife Sandy opened up their home to their teenage daughter's 17-year-old boyfriend, who reportedly had nowhere to stay. Shortly thereafter the couple found out that he was stealing prescription pain medication from the home, and had on a prior occasion hit their daughter. Lee and Sandy eventually told the boyfriend that he should make plans to leave their home. One day, seeing the boyfriend outside the house with his daughter, Lee asked him again to leave, and the young man attacked him, ripping out stitches from Lee's recent surgery. The boyfriend left with Lee's daughter, and Lee was in too much pain to do m