A judge in Tacoma told the police yesterday that they had better return the drugs to the man within seven days or they could be found in contempt, reports the Associated Press.
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Judge Orders Cops To Return Marijuana To Man Pulled Over For Speeding A Year Ago
It’s gotta be kind of weird for police officers in Washington State now that marijuana is on the up-and-up. Case in point: A judge is ordering cops to give a man’s pot back to him after they seized it during a traffic stop last May. Since then, marijuana in small amounts has become legal, but the cops are still hanging on to the guy’s stash.
A judge in Tacoma told the police yesterday that they had better return the drugs to the man within seven days or they could be found in contempt, reports the Associated Press.
A judge in Tacoma told the police yesterday that they had better return the drugs to the man within seven days or they could be found in contempt, reports the Associated Press.
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6 comments:
So let me get this straight. If you commit a crime which later becomes legal it's OK?
I think the judge might want to smoke some as well.
I thought EX Post Facto worked the exact opposite way. 1048 is right, this is stupid. The day he got caught with pot, he was doing something illegal, and must pay the consequences.
liberals!
10:48 and 2:08 obviously dont know what an actual Ex post facto law is in the legal sense. The Constitutional prohibition on ex post facto laws only applies to prevent a citizen from being prosecuted under a new law for something that had been legal at the time he did the activity, and which the new law now makes illegal. Doesn't apply here.
So 10:17, if marijuana becomes legal in MD everybody in jail for it must be released? And possibly have their weed returned?
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