Drug Possession: South Metro Police Blotter
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Drug Possession: South metro police blotter
Drug activity. An 18-year-old Coon Rapids woman was arrested for drug possession and a 20-year-old woman was arrested for drug possession and prostitution in the 10 block of McAndrews Road W.
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Drug Possession: Model Suzanne Stokes Facing Felony Drug Charge
Model/actress Suzanne Stokes is facing a drug possession charge following an arrest in Los Angeles in the early hours of Wednesday (08Jun11). The former Playboy Playmate, who once appeared on hit TV sitcom Frasier, was questioned by police after driving pa…
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Drug Possession: Retrial for alleged drug possession inside police garage
WEST CHESTER — What role, if any, Christopher Eugene Morris had in bringing 37 packets of crack cocaine into the Coatesville police station garage is a question before Common Pleas Court this week — again.
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Drug Possession: Drug ‘Possession’ = ACQUIT
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Yeah let all the drug fuct trash go free, they certainly arnt stealing shit to pay for their drugs (^.o)
Acquit the dealers too, unless they are selling to kids or the dealing also involves violence, theft, or fraud.
why? drugs are vices. Sending people to jail almost never solves the problem. They’re right back out on the streets doing it again. The feds need to get out and let yall take care of you’re citizens not send 20 year olds to prison with hardened killers and rapists for doing a shot or snorting.
doesn’t matter. The feds have no constitutional jurisdiction in that area in the first place. they need to get out of the drug war and American citizens need to be doing their jobs. The people have let the fed intervene in that area and it has led to total chaos. Your constitution clearly names out what the feds can and can’t do. Drugs fall under what they can’t.
Yes I’m aware of that, but we live in a society where most people are not wise enough to know that. They either plea guilty or innocent. Most drug charges end in probation. People are uneducated enough to accept this punishment. The courts I have been to don’t want to throw ‘most’ offenders in jail. In fact they would LOVE for them to repeat offend cause it puts money in the system. Average individual’s don’t know how to go about your recommendations. Hence almost always no jury.
“I think you misunderstand what i mean.”
No.
“what i am unsure about is if the 9th amendment can be applied to protect our right to consume drugs.”
Yes. Juries, the highest legal authority in the land (not the SCOTUS), are the ARBITER of that. Rabid Ape is invoking it. If and when The People accept the argument, the 9th amendment will have prevailed.
That’s how it works. Make your case to the JURIES and they will vote on it. Vote yourself when called.
It’s called “democracy.”
I think you misunderstand what i mean. I know the entire constitution applies to jury trials, what i am unsure about is if the 9th amendment can be applied to protect our right to consume drugs. I want to say yes, but the way it’s worded i could easily see how a no could also be easily interpreted.
“. . .the 9th amendment, but am unsure if that applies.”
The jurisdiction of the 9th amendment (despite judges instructions to the contrary) is The People. The principle mechanism of defining it’s scope, its terms and enforcing them is . . . trial by jury.
That is, in fact, the PURPOSE of trail by jury, to allow The People, WITHIN the frame work of the courts, to refuse abhorrent laws in violation of their rights.
Thus the 9th amendment applies to all jury trials.
“. . . what posession charge ever goes to a jury trial?”
See my comment above. The answer is EVERY criminal charge wherein the accused demands a jury trial.
You are asking the wrong question. The correct question is WHY do so many drug charges not result in a jury trial?
The answer, I’m afraid, is longish and involves a discussion of the CULTURE of the courts.
“. . .most drug possessions are dealt with in small court where you don’t get a jury.”
You have the RIGHT to DEMAND a jury for any charge for which it is POSSIBLE to be incarcerated if found guilty.
Small courts, however, typically operate on the principle of “Keep the Line Moving” and if YOU do not know and demand your rights you are unlikely to be informed of them , never mind receive them, even by your own legal council.
Oh yeah, ’cause that’s really easy to figure out
I’m sorry, but what posession charge ever goes to a jury trial? I know Americans throw a disproportionate amount of sad f*ckers in prison for minor drug offenses, but they don’t get anywhere near a jury.
I will only acquit users of marijuana.
Any other drug, no.