Friday, November 04, 2005

How tree sap can get you 5-20

A while back a friend of mine had a really weird little case. Defendant is charged with possession of an imitation controlled substance with intent to distribute.

Here are the uncontroverted facts: Dude starts talking with police. He tells police he has fashioned some imitation crack from tree sap and flour. He is going to try to sell the tree sap to a crack addict for money. Heh. He thinks its funny.

Unfortunately, in Alabama they passed a law that possession of an imitation controlled substance is the same as possessing the substance.

Yeah, so they arrested the dude for selling (possession with intent to distribute- a felony.) She did get it down to possession of paraphanelia (a misdemeanor) but still... I thought it was pretty crappy of the cop. He should have just told the guy, hey man, you can't do that.

2 comments:

Eric said...

That makes me think of all those elementary school kids who snort smarties. That cop could have a field day with them.

Eric said...

That makes me think of all those elementary school kids who snort smarties. That cop could have a field day with them.