Tag Archives: drug crimes
Federal Appeals Court Bars DOJ From Prosecuting Medical Marijuana Cases
On August 16, 2016, a three- judge panel of the 9th Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals (this is the federal appellate court that covers California) ruled against the Federal Government, holding the Department of Justice (DOJ) cannot prosecute marijuana cases when a STATE permits medical marijuana &/or a business or individual is … Read More
Unintended Consequences of Criminal Offenders Being Transferred from State Prison to County Jail
The growing population of over 150,000 inmates in state prisons in California has exceeded the level the U.S. Supreme Court opined in 2011 is permissible. There has been litigation in Federal Court to obtain a more speedy reduction of the state prison population, and a new law has been enacted as a result of the … Read More
Feds raid 17 Calif. auto stores for nitrous oxide
Several Southern California auto shops and other businesses suspected of illegally selling nitrous oxide for recreational use were raided by hundreds of law enforcement officers on Friday. This drug raid has been considered the largest of its kind in the nation. During 17 simultaneous raids conducted in Orange County, Los Angeles, and Riverside County, four … Read More
22 students arrested in drug sting (Sam Spital)
COMMENTARY BY SAM SPITAL, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY- SAN DIEGO: “Fox 5 digital news reported on December 12, 2012 an illegal drug ring was discovered by an undercover drug investigation in which officers posed as students in several high school campuses in the Temecula Valley area of Riverside County, a community adjacent to San Diego. In … Read More
Agents seize $500,000 in drugs (Sam Spital)
“On September 13, 2012, the UT News printed an article about Border Patrol agents in several check points in both the counties of San Diego and Orange stopping vehicles and finding hidden in various parts of the automobiles a total of about a half-million dollars in street value of illegal drugs.As long as there are individuals … Read More
Hit-and-run killer gets more jail time for drugs (Sam Spital)
“Fox 5 News reported on September 12, 2012, a Defendant previously convicted and incarcerated for a felony hit and run killing was sentenced to more jail time. She was charged with and pled guilty to smuggling drugs into jail; she made phone calls to help another inmate get drug laced greeting cards into the jail; … Read More
San Diego CBP agents seize drugs worth $253,550 (SAM SPITAL)
“Clearly, the continued escalation of drug smuggling evinces the growing use of and seemingly unending reliance upon drugs by individuals who cannot tolerate their daily life challenges. ~ Addiction is a never ending cycle that demands rigid adherence to known and successful recovery programs. ~ Better education, developing proven life skills, and utilizing accepted and … Read More