On Thursday 19-year-old Jacob Lavoro made his first court appearance for allegedly making and selling pot brownies, reports KHON 2. Lavoro is being charged with a first degree felony, which in Texas is a, “Crime which results in severe body harm to a victim and possibly death.”
If convicted, the punishment for a first degree felony according to the Texas penal code is a, “Jail term of no less than five years, and no more than 99.” According to Sullo & Sullo LLP, in Texas, other crimes that carry a first degree felony charge are, aggravated sexual assault, solicitation of capital murder, and trafficking of children under the age of fourteen.
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“Crime which results in severe body harm to a victim and possibly death.”
ReplyDeleteSevere body (bodily) harm? Prove it, Texas. And none of you anecdotal crap, either - show us the science, the real science, not the stuff that Richard Nixon believed.
Death? You might die from the sugar and chocolate if you ate enough. But there there is no lethal dose of marijuana, according to research.
The kid's attorney is going to tear this case up, and the kid can sue for frivolous charges being laid. After that, no other law enforcement officer or DA will make such a dumb mistake.
Texas is like living with the Taliban
ReplyDelete@2:44 he was using HASH OIL to make the brownies, and it has ALREADY been proven that if you don't know what you are doing making the HASH OIL or you purchased it from someone who used a CHEAP way of making it HASH OIL CAN PRODUCES LESIONS ON THE BRAIN!!!! Those lesions can be CANCEROUS!!!! Point Proven! DO YOUR HOMEWORK FIRST!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that the brownies were made with hash oil not weed therefore the weight of the brownies is calculated as the weight of the drugs and makes it a felony. If he had used weed, no big deal.
ReplyDeleteNo known harm, and he faces 5-99 years? WTF? They are releasing known, and convicted drug kingpins, murderers, sex traffickers, and many other TRUE criminals. The heroin and meth dealers are walking in 3 days... and they want to make an example out of a 19 year old, and some brownies. We are F-ed as a nation.
ReplyDeleteYou can crash the US economy and live in a multimillion dollar house in the Hamptons but this poor kid gets 5-99 years?
ReplyDeletetell ya what....dont do illegal stuff and you wont get these sentences.
ReplyDeletei think its great! loosen the rules, but harsher punishments.