Sentences with phrase «marijuana possession when»

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This is the same woman that crashed the car with him in it last year when he was arrested for marijuana possession, which almost cost him his job.

I've never been arrested or around marijuana at all except when I arrested someone for possession.

This usually crops up when young people of color are asked to empty their pockets by police (yes, even now that the NYPD has reduced the frequency of stop - and - frisks); in 2010, the state arrested more than 100,000 people for marijuana possession, leaving more reactionary destinations like Texas in the dust.

When City Councilman Daniel Dromm (D - Jackson Heights) criticized Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration for the large number of marijuana possession arrests made on his watch and advocated for legalizing medical marijuana, he said he was not dismissing the drug's ill effects.

Private possession of small amounts of marijuana is considered just a violation, but when the drug becomes public during a police search, the person is subject to a misdemeanor charge.

Under a policy de Blasio put in place in his first year in office, the NYPD currently gives summonses when someone is found with marijuana in their possession, but not smoking it.

«Some of our police officers are making race - based discretionary decisions on who they're going to arrest for low - level marijuana possession,» said Leroy Gadsden, the president of a branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Jamaica, Queens, and the chairman of the criminal justice committee for the statewide N.A.A.C.P. «Therefore, of course, if you're a young, black male, even a female, you're going to feel that you're being targeted when you notice that your white counterparts are not being arrested for the same thing.»

Synopsis: When her boyfriend is arrested for marijuana possession, Joleen Reedy (Charlize Theron) and her 11 - year - old daughter, Tara (AnnaSophia Robb), take... [MORE]

I do believe that violent criminals should be kept behind bars, but when poor men (because they mostly are men) are being put behind bars because of possession of marijuana and other minor crimes, it spreads the system too thin and it's unable to focus on the people who should really be away from public.

He had also achieved great amounts of success that included securing an acquittal at trial for a client charged with possessing a controlled substance, obtaining a discharge for a client charged with domestic assault when the Crown wanted a conviction and permanent criminal record, and drafting an appeal factum that resulted in the overturning of a conviction for possession of marijuana on grounds that the client's Charter right to speak to a lawyer was violated.

«I don't think that people should anticipate that the backlog of the courts is largely due to prosecutions from minor possessions of marijuana,» says Edward Prutschi, partner at Adler Bytensky Prutschi Shikhman Criminal Litigation, when asked whether legalizing marijuana will assist in dealing with court delays.

American border officials treat a drug conviction as a «crime of moral turpitude», whcih makes a person inadmissible into the U.S. Therefore it is imperative to avoid a conviction when charged, even it is for the possession of a single joint of marijuana.

Instead of arresting you, impounding your car, and taking you to jail to await trial (unless you can make bail), the police will now give you a summons for when you must appear in court to answer for the possession of marijuana charge.

The real surprise came when I read the article posted on the Roanoke Times website and saw that bus driver, Wille F. Walker, age 59, was charged with DUI and possession on Marijuana.

When facing the serious charge of marijuana possession for the purposes of trafficking, you need a criminal defence lawyer who is current on the legal issues and meticulous in preparing your defence.

When I look at the court dockets there tends to be a lot of arrests for possession of marijuana and DWI.