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Below you’ll find the posts at ExperiencedCriminalLawyers from the Drug Charges category. I highly recommend you read each of them if you’re accused or charged with criminal drug charges.
Drug Possession, and related charges are more serious in some states than they are in others. Drug charges don’t automatically make you a criminal. Knowing the rules and understanding how the legal system is the responsibility of any good defense attorney. Check back here often to read about real cases involving drugs and drug related charges.
Over the past few years, the nation has seen an influx of what are being called “synthetic” drugs. Spice, K2, LOL, and BZP are just a few of the substances causing a scramble as lawmakers grapple with creating laws for these formulas not previously seen and adults and kids alike rush out to buy up [...]
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Although the abuse of prescriptions drugs has been climbing for the past several years, some states have yet to enact legislation to try and control it. However, many are doing what they can to keep these drugs from the people who don’t legitimately need them while maintaining ease of access for people who do. Strategies [...]
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Drug courts are specialized courts that seek to keep people out of the criminal justice system. Rather than focusing on punitive measures like prison time, they instead focus on rehabilitation and prevention. Despite such courts coming under fire from the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Inspector General, the DOJ’s acting Director of the Bureau of Justice [...]
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Last week Congress moved to reduce the disparities between the crack cocaine and powder cocaine sentences. The difference between the two had been a point of controversy since the 1980s with critics claiming the difference was racist and completely irrational.
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Via Lawrence Taylor, comes a report that MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) was rated poorly by several charity watchdog groups about it’s spending practices. According to the sources Charity Watch and Charity Navigator, MADD spends 2/3s of it’s budget on staff, salaries, and overhead, leaving only one third for “charitable work and victims services”. Charity Navigator rates [...]
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Though not present in every jurisdiction, drug courts are an effective alternative to the typical criminal courts when it comes to drug offenses. These courts began in Florida in 1989 and are now present in every state, to one extent or another. United States Attorney General Eric Holder announced this week that drug courts are [...]
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In several key announcements and policy shifts, it appears as if the Obama Administration is supporting an approach to drug laws that marks a contrast from past administrations. While the “War on Drugs” started with Richard Nixon ages ago, it has taken years for the government to recognize its shortfalls and move towards correcting the [...]
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The Minnesota Supreme Court recently upheld a DWI conviction where the car wouldn’t start, and there was no evidence that the person had driven the car at all. The defendant in this case was parked legally at his apartment complex, the keys were on the console, not in the ignition, and the car was cold, [...]
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The case of Massachusetts State Senator Anthony Galluccio, sentenced to 1 year in jail for violating probation, leaves a number of questions unanswered. The Senator violated the terms of his probation by failing an in-home breath test alcohol monitoring system. But the circumstances are unusual, and questions about the device that sunk him, remain.
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In a recent editorial, The Washington Times tried to make the case that the recent US Supreme Court decision in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts is n impediment to crime fighting. And if they prioritize orderly, assembly-line convictions over fairness, justice, and the 6th Amendment to the US Constitution, then they may be correct on that point.
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