Recent Posts in Possession Of A Controlled Substance Category
Posted on Apr 9, 2012 By Plano Drug Crime Lawyer
Police were called to a mall in the state of Virginia over the Easter weekend to arrest the Easter Bunny. After several phone calls were made to 911 about the bunny acting suspiciously, the police ...
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Posted on Aug 25, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
Often times, when the police search a car or person, they might find the residue of cocaine , marijuana , or heroin . This will often arise when a police officer finds drug paraphernalia on the ...
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Posted on Aug 24, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
Yesterday, we addressed the issue of the affirmative links and the court of appeal's use of them when reviewing a conviction. As we noted, the State must prove possession by the actual care, ...
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Posted on Aug 23, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
Yesterday , we reviewed one of the elements of a the offense of a possession of a controlled substance . That element is possession, and this is one of the most litigated areas of drug possession law. ...
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Posted on Aug 22, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
As we noted yesterday, the Penal Code and Texas Health and Safety Code divide controlled substances into several different categories. It also divides the offenses into the drug offenses into whether ...
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Posted on Aug 19, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
As we detailed yesterday , all different drugs are separated into different groups called Schedules. The Schedules are broken down into I-V, with Schedule I being considered the most dangerous of the ...
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Posted on Jun 16, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
As we noted in previous blogs, Texas divides controlled substances into five penalty groups. The penalty group that we will discuss today is a flashback to the 1970s: LSD. Lysergic acid diethylamide, ...
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Posted on Jun 15, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
As we noted in our blog entry yesterday, the level of crime that you can be charged with for POSSESSION of a controlled substance (note there is a different range of punishment for delivery of a ...
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Posted on Jun 14, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
The Texas Legislature regulates the penalty for possession of a controlled substance in Texas. However, according to the Texas Health and Safety Code, the Texas Legislature delegated to the Texas ...
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Posted on May 23, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
The Supreme Court of the United States recently released an opinion addressing the issue of exigent circumstances and the use of said circumstances to establish probable cause to conduct a warrantless ...
Continue reading "Case Of The Week: The Supreme Court Eliminates More Of The Fourth Amendment" »
Posted on May 18, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
A registered nurse in Seattle, Washington has been arrested for "diverting" drugs approximately one-hundred times before being caught. Gordon McSherry, 46, is accused of taking fentanyl (to treat ...
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Posted on May 17, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
The Drug Enforcement Agency has arrested a Midland man on charges that he gave a man some oxycodone. After the man took the drug, the man blacked out and stopped breathing. His family then found his ...
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Posted on May 13, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
Mack Herron, formerly of the New England Patriots (1973-1974) was arrested in Chicago for possession of controlled substance . He was arrested after police allegedly saw him drop a tin-foil packet ...
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Posted on May 12, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
The jockey Michael Baze , 24, a jockey who won 918 races out of almost 7,000 starts/mounts was found dead in his car at Churchill Downs. Baze had been arrested for DWI in 2009. Baze was also scheduled ...
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Posted on May 10, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
William Silva, 27, was convicted by a Williamson County jury to life in prison for possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver or distribute . Silva was arrested after he was pulled ...
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Posted on May 2, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
Warden Lamar Palmer, 56, was a nurse and prescribed Ambien to a co-worker or called in the prescription to the pharmacy himself. He would then obtain the drugs from his colleague to use himself. ...
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Posted on Apr 25, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
Does this person look like a drug trafficker ? What about this person ? These two fine citizens were arrested in Florida for trafficking .... opium? Shirley Lee Prince, 64 of Beulaville, N.C., and ...
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Posted on Apr 22, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
Barret Robbins, who fights bipolar disorder and substance abuse, missed the 2003 Super Bowl when he famously disappeared. He was on a maniacal drug-induced bender. He was then suspended for steroid ...
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Posted on Apr 12, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
Dennis Quaid told Newsweek magazine recently that he used cocaine . He started in the early 1970s when he first went to Hollywood. Cocaine use was so prevalent at the time that it was actually part of ...
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Posted on Apr 1, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
A Pennsylvania 27-year-old woman was arrested for hiding more than 100 items, including 54 bags of heroin and loose change, in "herself." After being detained for investigation of a recent burglary, a ...
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Posted on Mar 31, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
A New York nurse is charged with stealing and forging prescriptions at different pharmacies throughout Genesee County, New York. As part of his job as a nurse, he broke into a computer system and ...
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Posted on Mar 23, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
A Las Vegas Deputy District Attorney was arrested on Saturday for purchasing cocaine from a street dealer. he was arrested after buying $40 worth of crack cocaine. The drug dealer told police that he ...
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Posted on Mar 23, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
Jose Antonio Medina Arreguin, who has been referred to as the "King of Heroin" pleaded guilty to conspiring to sell narcotics in California. Only 36 years old, this overachiever was pocketing over ...
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