Drug Offense Articles

Articles Related to Being Arrested for Drug Charges:

• What Punishment Do I Face for Possession of Marijuana?
• The Police Did Not Read Me My Miranda Rights – Will My Case Be Dismissed?
• Be Careful Who Your Friends Are – You Can Be Arrested on a Warrantless Search
• When an Arrestee Is Detained, It Is Unconstitutional to Search a Car without a Warrant
• Drug Evidence Suppressed When Police Improperly Stops Vehicle
• Traffic Stop Ruled Improper and Evidence Seized by Police Suppressed When Officer Lacked Reasonable Suspicion to Stop Driver
• Search of FedEx Package Containing Marijuana Held Improper and Case Dismissed
• Police Use of GPS on Drug Dealer’s Car without a Warrant Held Improper; Evidence from It Thrown Out
• The Police Asked Me to Be an Informant- Should I?
• When One Admits to Having Marijuana, a Search Is Legal When an Arrest Follows
• Marijuana Smell Does Not Justify Warrantless Search of Hotel Room
• Suspected Ecstasy Drug Trafficker Successfully Challenges Search of His House Based on Faulty Search Warrant Affidavit
• Fourth Amendment Violated When Officers Search House After House Guest Lets DEA Agents into House
• Fourth Amendment Violated When Pomona Police Induce Doctor to Forcibly Remove Plastic Baggie with Cocaine from Arrestee’s Rectum
• Have a Cellphone? Arrested? New Case Says Police Need a Warrant to Search Your Phone Contents
• Honey Oil and Dabs Found Covered by the Medical Marijuana Compassionate Use Act (CUA), but Do Not Celebrate Yet
• U.S. Supreme Court Rules Dog Sniff of Car Improper After Officer Makes Routine Traffic Stop for Driving on the Shoulder of the Road
• What Is Manufacturing a Controlled Substance (H & S 11379.6)
• What Is Possession of Drug Paraphernalia (H & S § 11364)?
• What Is Possession of a Controlled Substance & the Defenses?
• What Is Transportation of a Controlled Substance (H&S 11352)?
• May Police Lie About the Reason for Traffic Stop?
• May a Homeowner Consent to Probation Search of a Guestroom?
• Does a Drug Dealer Face Civil Liability If Overdose Happens?
  

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Articles Related to Being in Court on Drug Charges:

• Is it Proper for the Prosecutor to Charge Me With More Than What Police Arrested Me For?
• What Should I Wear and Bring to Court?
• Why Hire Private Counsel? Why Shouldn't I Just Use the Public Defender?
• What is an Arraignment?
• What is a Preliminary Hearing?
• Owners of Venice Medical Marijuana Clinic May Be Charged With the Unlicensed Practice of Medicine Although They Did Not See Patients
• What is the Difference Between a Misdemeanor and a Felony?
• Did the Prosecution Violate Your Sixth Amendment Right to a Speedy Trial?
• Judge Makes Mistake in Allowing Letting Jury Hear Drug Cartel Evidence
• Sentence Set Aside When Federal Judge Makes Mistake
• Defendant’s Sixth Amendment Right to Cross-Examination Not Violated When Confidential Informant Testifies Wearing a Wig and Sunglasses
• Wiretap Information Leading to Seizure of 353 Kilograms of Cocaine Properly Denied to Defendant
• Which County Will Prosecute Me if I Committed a Crime in Two Different Counties?
• Beware: The Prosecution May Add Charges During Trial Based on Witness Testimony in Trial
• Convictions Overturned for Possession and Sales of Ecstasy When Based Only on Inference that its Chemical Name is an Illegal Controlled Substance
• A Medical Marijuana Certificate is Not Always a Valid Defense to a Charge of Possession for Sales
• Is it Illegal for the Government to Use an Informant With a Lengthy Criminal History in a Drug Investigation?
• How Does the Sixth Amendment Affect My Right to Cross Examine a Witness knowledge About a Lab Report?
• Trial on a Possession of a Controlled Substance, When the Substance is Marijuana and Below 28.5 Grams, Need Not Be Tricky
• Medical Marijuana Cultivation Expert Disqualified at Trial
• What Is Possession of Marijuana for Sales (H & S § 11359)?
  

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Articles Related to Sentencing For Drug Offense:

• A “No Contest” Plea to New Criminal Charges Can Constitute a Probation Violation.
• Federal Conviction of Importing Marijuana Overturned for Improper Use of Rap Sheet
• Appeals Court Overturns Alhambra Conviction for Possession of Ecstasy Pills
• Ecstasy Opinion by Court Sure to Cause Misery
• Cocaine Courier’s Sentence Not Reduced Due to Large Quantity Seized
• Prison Sentence? It May Be Served in County Jail Under a New California Law
• Drug Diversion Programs-Prop 36 Versus PC 1000
• What is Diversion, Delayed Entry of Plea and Deferred Entry of Judgement?
• What is Summary Probation?
• Judge May Prohibit Medical Marijuana Use as Term of Probation
• Immigration Consequences of a Conviction for a Drug Offense
• Removal Order Affirmed for Alien Convicted for Use of Drug Paraphernalia
• What is Split Sentencing?
• Sentencing Alternatives for Military Veterans Under Penal Code § 1170
• Can I Withdraw My Plea Based on Ineffective Assistance of Counsel?
• Conviction Reversed for District Attorney Withholding Evidence
• Conviction for Possession of Materials to Produce Methamphetamine Reversed
• Marijuana Grower’s Conviction for Voluntary Manslaughter Upheld from Killing Thief of His Crop
• Federal Judge Incorrectly Classifies Crack Seller as Career Offender
• Standard Probation Conditions Authorizing Police to Conduct Warrantless Searches, With or Without Probable Cause, Upheld on Appeal When Police Find Felon on Probation with Shotgun
• Defendant Does Not Have to Pay Restitution When Probation Terminated and Cases Dismissed
• Court Rules that, in Drug Case, a Probation Condition is Proper that Someone Not Associate With Others He Has Reason to Know are Drug Users
• Cooking Methamphetamine With Child Under 16 Present Involves Prison Sentence, Not County Jail Under AB109
• Cash Seized from Suspected Drug Dealer Returned to Him After Police, Rather than Prosecutor, Start Forfeiture Proceedings
• Court Incorrectly Grants Certificate of Rehabilitation by Not Evaluating Recent Drug Offense
• Is Expungement Worth it?
• How Do I Have My Arrest Record Sealed and Destroyed?
• The Post Release Community Supervision Act of 2011 Regarding New Drug Offenses Violates Prop 36, the Court of Appeal Finds.
• What Probation Conditions Are Unconstitutionally Vague?
• Prop 47 Relief on Prior Drug Convictions – Where to File?
• Cultivating Marijuana Conviction and Prop 47 – Eligible?
• What’s Spice and What Punishment for Its Possession or Sale?
• What Is Possession of a Controlled Substance for Sale?
• What Is Possession of Meth for Sales (H & S § 11378)?
• What Does It Mean to Be a Registered Narcotics Offender?
• What Are My Rights to Marijuana Now That Prop 64 Has Passed?
  

Articles Related to Visiting One in Jail:

• If Visiting One in Jail, Be Careful What You Bring With You!
• Witness Intimidation Can Make Admissible Otherwise Inadmissible Hearsay
• Seven Years to Life Sentence for Dissuading a Witness for Benefit of a Gang Reversed Because No Force Threatened
• Is My Call from Jail to My Attorney Really Private?

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