hello hello (question about arrests)
 

was arrested for half a gram of marijuana
misd. class b
shit wasnt even mine
i took a piss test at the doctor for peace of mind and passed it
lawyer says ill be fine and prob get it dismissed

however, i forgot to mention to him that they did not read my rights while i was being arrested/in custody
so does that make the arrest moot?

why did you have jane if you weren't going to smoke it?

edit: sry i'm no help to u for any legal stuff

someone we were giving a ride to earlier that day left it in the backseat
i wasnt going to let my girlfriend get arrested and go to county for some pot that someone left in her car

trust me, had it been mine, i wouldve hid it in a better place... or eaten it
it was a half gram
a pinch, basicaly

wow that sucks

The "being read your rights" technicality seems to be less easy to use in order to get shit dropped these days.
The clean pee test and tiny amount look good for you. I predict a fine at worst. Probably nothing. It would be good to ask to get the arrest expunged if you come out unscathed though, so you can still have a clean record.
If you had a clean record to begin with, of course.

yeah, first offense


law is pretty harsh here in the great state of texas

over here its soemthing like, if you get caught with a small amount that isnt enough to sell, you get a 500$ fine, and if u get caught with more u go to court i think

That sucks. Get the cops name and report him

civil disobidence dont pay the fines !!!

Got busted with a very small amount in a small Ohio town (1/16 an ounce or something). Liscence was revoked for 6 months and I had to pay, like, 400 in fines, total.

A year later, busted again, in another, somewhat larger Ohio city. No revoked liscence, was given jail time but it was suspended (thank God) and like 150 in fines.

?????

So, you'll get whatever the fuck the judge feels like giving. I got a lawyer the second time, which makes me think that things could have been worse if I hadn't. Sux--either pay a lawyer or a court. (or, in my case, BOTH!)

Who the fuck, by the way, gets busted TWICE? I know old hippies who have been smoking for decades and have never run afoul of the law. God, I'm a loser.

Oh, second time I had to stand on one foot and give the cop the alphabet backwards! At 3 am. Anyhow, I fucked up. Couldn't have done it at 3 in the afternoon, anyhow.

The thing is, the cop made me do it on a gravel parking lot. I was told this was a no-no. Still, no one seemed to care.

The Miranda Rights violation seems like a bigger deal than gravel. Still, don't be shocked if the case stays open. They (the courts) figure that most people don't have the energy, time, and/or money to fight for an appeal. For the most part, they're right, and consequently get away with a lot.

If we'd get busted we'd get a fine...
That's it.

Given the history of your antics, I'm surprised this is the first time you got busted for something. Consider it a character-builder.

As SC said, not being Mirandized doesn't typically allow you any breaks anymore, especially not, I would think, in a situation as minor as this. I wonder if your highly scandalous and publicized soiree of a while back is going to count against you. Ha!

No, really, good luck. But let this be a lesson to you for the future - chivalry is an outdated, naive, and downright silly notion. Should've gotten your bitch busted instead.

hopefully you'll be fine. it looks like everything else worked out in your favor, so maybe this will as well.

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speak english or die

See this never happens in the UK, plus in wales the police really couldnt give 2 shinny shits about weed.

This is an opportunity. When your day in court comes, read the judge the riot act about unfair and ineffective are our country's drug laws. Then tell the judge that you refuse to pay the fines or court costs as a matter of principle.

Take a stand!

Police in the UK couldn't give a shit about most things, that's why the country is in such deep anti-social shit.

Ive never come across this anti-social distopia the tabloids like to talk about. Really all I ever hear is a friend of a friend of a friend got his car broken into and it usually turns out he pissed someone off. There are increases in crime in some places and decreases in others, its always, always been like that. I dont believe its as bigger deal as its made out to be. I for one am quite happy how things are in my area, and yet my local Am's whole election arguments revolved solely around 'anti-social behavour'. Its more Public paranoia than anything else.

and yes i understand there are some rough areas, and that certainly needs sorting out (although this extra policing crap will not help those areas one bit) but for the majority of the country its pure bullshit.

Perhaps thats true for where you live, but not here.

Where I live now would be classed as middle-class. Houses are between 200-300K a pop- and is it worth the money? Not one fucking bit. Gangs of about 50+ teens used to just 'hang' right outside my mothers house, wrecking cars, tagging walls, robbing from the Spar and on one occasion they broke into to one of the houses (in clear sight). Once, when a neighbor confronted the gang.. well this happened;

Neighbor: Go on, get out of here.
Kid: Oh, I'll get out of here. When I'm done having a piss.

He was pissing on her house. There's just one example, but really, I see and hear it all. A guy got murdered down the street in his own house, and the next day it was the talk of school, and everyone knew who it was but nobody had told the police. The guy was arrested later on. He was 17. He went to preschool with my sister and now he's a murderer. I don't know how many school folks I've seen drop out and become drug addicts. Even my sister got herself involved in that scene- and what did it get her? You really don't want to know.

This new generation, at least in Liverpool (and therefore I could probably assume its the same in London, Manchester, Glasgow, etc) is almost entirely promiscuous, drug-addled, needlessly violent scum.

I don't really want to write off a whole generation, but I'll be forced to someday. So, no, it is not pure bullshit, not at all.

If these children would only find the word of God at a young age, all this wouldn't happen. They need to become one with Jesus and find their true selves.

I don't know whether you're being sarcastic or not, so if I agree with you I am setting myself up for potential ridicule.

There's lots of things that would help these kids- a decent education system (yeah, the uk needs one), better fucking policing to catch them early enough to turn them around, and yes, a bit of Jesus Christ.

remember... the day the country died?


you know every time I have been arrested for herb it has been for something petty like a half a gram? fines, misdimeanor record, and no FAFSA financial aid for college.

this whole probation, drug program, jail time thing for herb is getting to be ridiculous. Everytime I leave Califoolya I run into people who were excessively punished for possession of herb. I don't understand it....

when you get busted by the FEDs for possession its just a fine and thats it, and it doesn't even stay on yr record....

Like I said I can only speak for Wales, but you generally find crime decreases in one area and goes up in another. Older people often say "when i was younger there wasnt half the amount of crime". Well thats because when you were younger this suburb of cardiff was merely a village with a maximum of 100 people. So its important that there is context when debating crime increases and decreases. Im not wholly convinced that tougher punishment and police presence is the answer. Sure there are areas that need sorting out. But there is a tendancy among the working and middle classes to blow everything out of proportion and I think it hurts the places that really do have a problem. I mean I lived in a council estate (i now live in beautiful Barrett home suburbia) and it seemed to me to be grossly exaggerated.

Perhaps its just I hate moral panics, declorations of the country turning into the wild west. There is no reasoned debate on this subject that is the problem, theres just a load of old people ranting and raving.

Anyway back to the subject. Its should look like things are being done when it comes to weed but there should be a consenus not to do anything. In that way the south wales police have got their policy just right. The police's resourses are better spent in other areas.

its all their fault.

I laughed like a fucking loon at this. Really.

They arrest you for half a gram in texas? Here if you have under 5g, they take it away from you and let you off. Sorry I can't help with any info Crypto, I don't smoke it anymore and I'm not too sure about legal concequences, especially in the USA which is much different from canada

yeah, its a bit silly...
but, its the law, you know?
thanks though

You know what I'd do if I were you? I'd go get stoned and stop worrying about it. What's the worst that can happen? You lose a little money, you get thrown in jail and make a few new friends? Meh. Piece of cake. A walk in the park.

yeah, a big friend with a tattooed cock. :eek:

Now, now, let' s not scare the poor young man. Most of them will just have your ordinary run of the mill big cock.

ive got a good lawyer.
dont think ill be doing jail time.
even if i had a shitty one, first offence cases dont normaly get jail time

what if his cock looks just like this

You should represent yourself!

Do the chewbacca defense.

hahaha
that'd be funny for, like, a second