{"id":5699,"date":"2004-01-21T16:07:17","date_gmt":"2004-01-21T23:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/01\/21\/dirty-pool-2.html"},"modified":"2013-06-05T10:55:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T16:55:26","slug":"dirty_pool_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/21\/dirty_pool_2.html","title":{"rendered":"Dirty pool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Regardless of how one feels about the War on Drugs, this kind of crap<\/a> doesn’t do much to promote respect for the law or the legal system.<\/p>\n

California medical marijuana activists are outraged over the arrest last week of two medical marijuana patients who face potential life sentences on federal drug charges after being turned over by local authorities. David Davidson, of Oakland, California and his partner Cynthia Blake, of Red Bluff, California were arrested in a state courtroom in Corning, California on January 13 as they were seeking to dismiss state charges of marijuana cultivation and distribution.
\nDavidson and Blake, both 53, have doctor’s recommendations to grow and consume medical marijuana under California’s 1996 Compassionate Use Act (Prop. 215). While their defense attorneys were meeting in the judge’s chambers to discuss the case with Tehama County assistant district attorney Lynn Strom, Strom announced that she was dropping the state charges because Davidson and Blake were being arrested in the courtroom on a federal indictment.
\n[…] “Our attorneys were lured into the judge’s chambers and as soon as the doors were closed, the deputies took us in a car as fast as they could all the way to Sacramento where we spent four hours chained in the county jail and held 24 hours before we could speak to counsel,” Davidson said. “Now I’m facing 10 to 15 years in prison and I’m 53 years old. It’s unbelievable.”<\/p>\n

If the county prosecutors didn’t feel they could win the case, merits of the law and arrest aside, they could have made much better arrangements to accomodate federal law enforcement requests than luring the defense attorneys from the defendents. For shame.<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Regardless of how one feels about the War on Drugs, this kind of crap doesn’t do much to promote respect for the law or the legal system. 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