by georgeroland | Mar 2, 2019 | Drug Charges, Uncategorized
When a person is on community supervision (probation), and the State wants the person to be kicked off of probation, the State is required to file a motion asking the Court to remove the person from probation and sentence the person to jail or prison time. For the...
by georgeroland | Jun 11, 2018 | Drug Charges
Increasingly, driving while intoxicated charges are being filed against people who drive—not under the influence of alcohol—but under the alleged influence of marijuana. Often enough, a warrant is sought for the person’s blood so that it can be tested for the presence...
by georgeroland | Mar 21, 2018 | Drug Charges, Uncategorized
It is well-known that Attorney General Jeff Sessions questionably linked the current opioid crisis to marijuana use (“The DEA said that a huge percentage of heroin addiction starts with prescriptions,” Sessions stated, “That may be an exaggerated number; they had it...
by georgeroland | Oct 27, 2017 | Drug Charges
In 1976, Texas adopted the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) guidelines, to get detailed, reliable crime statistics. In addition to UCR, there are several additional statistics that police departments must report—family violence, sexual assault, hate crimes, and the like....
by georgeroland | Aug 4, 2017 | Drug Charges, Uncategorized, UNT
In what has become a well-known quote from the 1969 Woodstock festival, an announcement was made from the stage that: “the brown acid that is circulating…is not specifically too good. It is suggested that you do stay away from that. Of course it’s your own...
by georgeroland | Jun 30, 2017 | Drug Charges, Uncategorized
On June 8, 2017, Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dianne Feinstein (D-California) revealed a proposed bill they had drafted together, clumsily named the “Stop the Importation and Trafficking of Synthetic Analogues Act of 2017” or Senate Bill 1327, or SITSA Act....
