Being arrested and charged with a criminal offense for most people is an intimidating experience. The combination of a wide variety of potential penalties hanging over your head and a lack of knowledge about the criminal prosecution process itself can be nerve-racking. One question that defendants in drug crimes in “Drug Crimes in San Diego: Will I Be Drug Tested in Court?”
What Is the Punishment for Selling Marijuana in California?
In the last couple of decades there has been a movement across the nation to legalize the medicinal use of marijuana. The State of California was one of the first states to pass a law legalizing medical marijuana. While the movement appears to be gaining momentum, with other states following “What Is the Punishment for Selling Marijuana in California?”
Supreme Court Allows Warrantless Search of Apartment That Smelled of Marijuana
Police officers who followed a suspect into his apartment complex were legally justified to knock down the door of an apartment that belonged to a different individual, when they detected a strong odor of marijuana emanating from the apartment and heard sounds of evidence being destroyed after announcing their presence, “Supreme Court Allows Warrantless Search of Apartment That Smelled of Marijuana”
Defending Drug-Related Crimes in San Diego
I often represent individuals accused of committing crimes related to possession, sale and transportation of illegal drugs, prescription drug offenses related to pharmacy crimes, and offenses related to marijuana cultivation and possession. The primary defense in most drug possession and sale matters involves whether the prosecution can establish that the evidence was “Defending Drug-Related Crimes in San Diego”
Is that Drug Really Cocaine, Methamphetamine, Marijuana, or Heroin?
In serious drug prosecutions, criminal defense lawyers cannot blindly trust police crime lab reports supposedly confirming that a substance is really cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana, or heroin. For that matter, anything coming out of the crime lab, such as blood toxicology results, DNA results and chain-of custody receipts should not be “Is that Drug Really Cocaine, Methamphetamine, Marijuana, or Heroin?”