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Zero Tolerance Policies
Anyone with school age children, or anyone who has been in high school or college in the past fifteen or so years, is familiar with the concept of “Zero Tolerance” polices. Such policies provide that certain behaviors—fighting, getting caught with drugs, etc.—will not...
Pot Update: Proposed Legislation HB 507
In December of 2014, House Bill 507 was filed for consideration in the 84th Legislative Session. The long title of the bill, “An Act Relating to the Civil Penalty for Possession of Certain Small Amounts of Marihuana and An Exception to Prosecution for Possession of...
Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Part II
Forfeiture of Contraband, Part II To answer when your seized property can be returned, it is useful to turn the question on its head and ask when can the State keep property that is has seized from the Accused? When the State Can Keep the Property (i.e....
Cash Rules Everything Around Me
Forfeiture of Contraband, Part I Suppose police execute a search warrant of your home, and find $3,500 cash tucked away in a dresser, along with a scale and individually bagged quantities of methamphetamine. Police seize the scale, the meth, and—to your surprise—the...
Manufacture/Delivery of a Controlled Substance
So far when I have written about drug charges, I have largely focused on the most common drug charge—“Possession of a controlled substance.” But, there is a separate offense detailed in the Health and Safety Code that makes it illegal to “knowingly manufacture,...
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