What Are the Penalties for Cocaine Possession in North Carolina?
Question by becky t: what are the penalties for cocaine possession in north Carolina?
i need to know the laws and penalties for drug trafficing and possession in north carolina
Best answer:
Answer by Suze
If you’re Lindsay Lohan, zero. If you’re an average person…we’re talking rather large felonies.
Answer by jurydoc
Possession is a Class I felony.
Trafficking is as follows:
Any person who sells, manufactures, delivers, transports, or possesses 28 grams or more of cocaine and any salt, isomer, salts of isomers, compound, derivative, or preparation thereof, or any coca leaves and any salt, isomer, salts of isomers, compound, derivative, or preparation of coca leaves, and any salt, isomer, salts of isomers, compound, derivative or preparation thereof which is chemically equivalent or identical with any of these substances (except decocainized coca leaves or any extraction of coca leaves which does not contain cocaine) or any mixture containing such substances, shall be guilty of a felony, which felony shall be known as “trafficking in cocaine” and if the quantity of such substance or mixture involved:
a. Is 28 grams or more, but less than 200 grams, such person shall be punished as a Class G felon and shall be sentenced to a minimum term of 35 months and a maximum term of 42 months in the State’s prison and shall be fined not less than fifty thousand dollars ($ 50,000);
b. Is 200 grams or more, but less than 400 grams, such person shall be punished as a Class F felon and shall be sentenced to a minimum term of 70 months and a maximum term of 84 months in the State’s prison and shall be fined not less than one hundred thousand dollars ($ 100,000);
c. Is 400 grams or more, such person shall be punished as a Class D felon and shall be sentenced to a minimum term of 175 months and a maximum term of 219 months in the State’s prison and shall be fined at least two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($ 250,000).
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