Given the amount of info you have provided, here is the only "serious" and accurate answer that you can expect: Different States, Different Laws, Different Jurisdictions, Different Judges, Different Juries, Different Sentences....
My boyfriend was looking at 4 years for possession, even smaller charge than what your guy is facing. And he waited over a year for his trail to start and it took over a year of deliberation to be finished. (No charges, expensive lawyer) But my advice, get a lawyer!
, then try to get bail. This will take possibly a couple years to be finished.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.