Quote Originally Posted by jamstigator
Me and a friend got stopped at a roadside interdiction right before the 4th of July one year. They found an ounce of mine. Luckily they did not realize both my friend and me were tripping balls on acid (dealing with a roadside interdiction bust while tripping on acid is...interesting, to say the least), and they didn't find the other hits of acid we'd left in the glove compartment box. I was set to take the rap for everything, but my friend tried to keep his dugout and one-hitter and got caught with them, so we both got busted.

The punishment was not too severe, really. They gave us tickets and let us go. I spoke to the prosecuter, representing both myself and my friend. She told us that bust was probably not legal and that if we took it to court, we'd win, but it'd cost a grand or so in legal fees. So, she offered us a monetary fine of around $250 (each), probation for one year, and then our records purged. No jail time, no community service, and after a year, nothing on our records either. I shoulda been a lawyer!
You should have just said "bring it on!"It only would cost you money if you HIRE a lawayer to represent you.Won't cost a DIME if you just make your own court appearances and defend yourself.Which is how I beat the rap when they tried to pin sales and distribution on me.I showed up for each court appearance and they kept postponing it.After the 3 or 4 appearance, the DA just dropped the case and I was free to go about my business.Never even had to open my mouth the entire time,all I had to do was show up on time and BE there.
All you accomplished by taking the DA's deal was to give those fuckers a full YEAR(the probation period) to catch your ass doing something else.And I assume the probation included some sort of DRUG testing also periodically during the probation period.
I would have countered her offer with "200.00 fine" PERIOD.No probation.