Sentences with phrase «prosecute marijuana possession»

Some prosecutors» offices also announced changes, including the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, which won't prosecute marijuana possession and smoking cases as of Aug....

NEW YORK, NY — Starting Aug. 1 the Manhattan District Attorney's office will decline to prosecute marijuana possession and use cases, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr., announced Tuesday.

The Manhattan District Attorney's office will no longer prosecute marijuana possession and smoking cases, with limited exceptions that might pose a threat to public safety beginning in August, Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. announced on May 15.

Not exact matches

Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said his office would work with the police and the mayor's office to pinpoint the «the very small number» of marijuana - possession cases that should be prosecuted because of public safety concerns.

In 2014, Thompson began what the DA's office called a groundbreaking policy not to prosecute low - level marijuana possession arrests.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said he would stop prosecuting cases of marijuana possession and smoking in public.

At a City Council hearing on Monday, Queens Councilman Rory Lancman, chairman of the Committee on Justice Systems, asked the city's five district attorneys to decline to prosecute individuals who are arrested for low - level marijuana possession for misdemeanors.

A charge of drunken driving filed against a West Scranton man was dismissed Wednesday by a Lackawanna County judge because the man had already been prosecuted for possession of marijuana stemming from the same incident.

Seriously ill medical marijuana patients in Minnesota are still being prosecuted for the «crime» of marijuana possession or cultivation may find that other legal defenses will have greater efficacy than the medical necessity defense, or jury nullification.

I'm not going to be the last judge in this country to convict somebody of simple possession of marijuana... You can't have the Prime Minister announcing it's going to be legalized and then stand up and prosecute it.

Many believe that with leniency towards simple possession of small amounts of marijuana being allowed, the authorities will bend over backwards to prosecute other drug offences (including drugging and driving) even more vigorously.

There is also a misconception that people are not charge or prosecuted for possession marijuana; they are — at an ever increasing rate.