JustPaus_88TSi Posted September 9, 2009 Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 I have court in two hours, 8:30am Arizona time. Class 4 Felony. So, yeah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanta Posted September 9, 2009 Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 (edited) So... who did you assault? Just how much marijuana were you packing? I kid I kid Hopefully the judge is merciful, and maybe drops it down to a misdemeanor, whatever it is that you did. Edited September 9, 2009 by Fanta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustPaus_88TSi Posted September 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 We'll see. My lawyer is pretty confident that it will be dismissed, and it should be with as much as I paid him. LOL I could've had two pounds of herb and it still would've only been a Class 6 Felony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanta Posted September 9, 2009 Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 Herb? Or was it REALLY powdered sugar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psu_Crash Posted September 9, 2009 Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 Good Luck! (from a guy who got convicted of a BS Felony) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustPaus_88TSi Posted September 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 Herb? Or was it REALLY powdered sugar? Xanax. About a 1/4 of a pill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killtodie Posted September 9, 2009 Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 a friend of mine was in the same ballpark as you, but had a whole bottle of xanax. got off easy. gl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanta Posted September 9, 2009 Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 Xanax. About a 1/4 of a pill. sooo what's the story ( if its okay to ask ) because a felony for 1/4 of an anti-depressant pill... wooo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustPaus_88TSi Posted September 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 I'm back from court, my lawyer just got an extension until Tuesday Sept 15th. sooo what's the story ( if its okay to ask ) because a felony for 1/4 of an anti-depressant pill... wooo Yeah, its crap. Back in December I found out that Rockstar coffee drinks mess me up fairly good and cause a sort of panic attack(elevated heart rate, hyper-ventilating, tunnel vision, hands visibly shaking). A co-worker gave me a chip of a Xanax. I didn't take it, and I called my pops who's a psychologist and he told me some techniques to alleviate my symptoms, it worked well enough that I could go back into work. I put the piece of Xanax in my car and forgot about it. I got pulled over on June 7th, car impounded, arrested etc.. They're sooooo concerned over my chip of a pill, but didn't charge me for my gun that I had on me. Weapons misconduct can be charged if there's a weapon involved in the commission of another felony(possession of dangerous drugs in my case), and it's a harsher charge(class 3 felony). I know people who work in detox facilites and I have drug tests that I passed the day after I was arrested. That's zero problem for me, I don't use drugs anymore. Period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burton Posted September 9, 2009 Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 Did you have any previous drug cases, even minor ones? If so, they may have seen those on your record, got tunnel vision thinking they'll pop ya again and then only found the little bit of Xzanax and had to run with it. They probably knew they'd have a hard time making it stick and that's why they skipped the gun charge. They probably knew that if they did the weapons charge, they'd have to prove the drug charge to make the weapon charge legit. They probably figured they could hit you with the little drug charge, you'd plea it down, and nobody would ever know they had a shaky case. If you get in any trouble at all for this, I will have lost all faith in our US justice system. Not that I had much faith in it before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
86FlatValour Posted September 9, 2009 Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 May I ask, what caused you to get pulled over in the first place and were you able to get your car back? Goodluck with the case, and don't drink energy drinks, coffee works just as good unless your like me and hate it then just get a few candybars or gum or something to stay awake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanta Posted September 9, 2009 Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 May I ask, what caused you to get pulled over in the first place and were you able to get your car back? Goodluck with the case, and don't drink energy drinks, coffee works just as good unless your like me and hate it then just get a few candybars or gum or something to stay awake. Monster makes an amazing coffee energy drink though that tastes almost exactly like a White Russian - for breakfast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmyers151 Posted September 9, 2009 Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 Monster makes an amazing coffee energy drink though that tastes almost exactly like a White Russian - for breakfast. Yeah dude, Monster JAVA, I put back a pair of those and went for a ride on my bike for a few hours, talk about awareness. Best of luck with your legal situation JP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dstar88 Posted September 9, 2009 Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 Monster makes an amazing coffee energy drink though that tastes almost exactly like a White Russian - for breakfast. hmmmm....interesting... ill have to try that some time. Daniel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
89PalermoSHP Posted September 9, 2009 Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 so no more (legal)guns if your convicted? probably not worth it in the end... theres alot of obvious things that could be stated but im going to guess you probably already know them all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzStar Posted September 9, 2009 Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 Well... it is noon:45 Arizona Time.. and site says you are reading this topic.... (unless you left your computer logged in?) So what happened? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustPaus_88TSi Posted September 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 Did you have any previous drug cases, even minor ones? If so, they may have seen those on your record, got tunnel vision thinking they'll pop ya again and then only found the little bit of Xzanax and had to run with it. They probably knew they'd have a hard time making it stick and that's why they skipped the gun charge. They probably knew that if they did the weapons charge, they'd have to prove the drug charge to make the weapon charge legit. They probably figured they could hit you with the little drug charge, you'd plea it down, and nobody would ever know they had a shaky case. If you get in any trouble at all for this, I will have lost all faith in our US justice system. Not that I had much faith in it before. My record is as spotless as it can possibly be, not even a traffic ticket. Nada. I hold a DoD Secret security clearance from an old job, so my background was investigated thoroughly. My lawyer was saying the same thing about the lack of the gun charge. According to the AZ statutes, Xanax is a schedule IV drug and falls under posession of a prescription-only drug and carries a charge of a class 1 Misdemeanor. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocumen...amp;DocType=ARS However, they revised the statute and now categorize is as a "dangerous drug" based on what its base is constructed of, which is why i'm charged with a class 4 felony. They list the "alprozolam" in the definitions of 13-3401. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocumen...amp;DocType=ARS http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocumen...amp;DocType=ARS May I ask, what caused you to get pulled over in the first place and were you able to get your car back? Goodluck with the case, and don't drink energy drinks, coffee works just as good unless your like me and hate it then just get a few candybars or gum or something to stay awake. Supposedly one of my license plate lights were out(there's two), which could've been the case as the connection is a bit funky. If you tap on the trunk, the light comes back on. I was going east bound, the cop was going west bound and turned around after there was at least a half mile between us. My lawyer is going to try and get the evidence suppressed based on when/why the cop turned around. so no more (legal)guns if your convicted? probably not worth it in the end... theres alot of obvious things that could be stated but im going to guess you probably already know them all. If i'm convicted of a felony, then yes there will be no more legal gun ownership/voting for me. I highly doubt that will happen though. Maybe if I was a career criminal or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustPaus_88TSi Posted September 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 Well... it is noon:45 Arizona Time.. and site says you are reading this topic.... (unless you left your computer logged in?) So what happened? My lawyer got a continuance for next tuesday. That will be when I either plead not guilty, or accept a plea if the charges can't be dismissed outright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komeuppance Posted September 9, 2009 Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 Help the police, help the police, help em!! -Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strang3majik Posted September 9, 2009 Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 yeah...that'll probably get thrown out. But, i can kinda understand where they were coming from in a way...I mean...your twenty something, and have Xanax in the car...might look fishy to those who don't know the whole story. Plus...that stuff is pretty bad...being its artificial heroine...so, its taken a little more seriously than a bag of weed. Even just a little bit. We know your story...but... Also, I'm guessing you gave the cop consent to search? Or, was it out in the open? But...good luck on getting it cleared...should be an easy win. Especially since you said you had a drug test very soon thereafter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edde Posted September 9, 2009 Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 What gave probable cause for search or was it in plain view? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustPaus_88TSi Posted September 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 yeah...that'll probably get thrown out. But, i can kinda understand where they were coming from in a way...I mean...your twenty something, and have Xanax in the car...might look fishy to those who don't know the whole story. Plus...that stuff is pretty bad...being its artificial heroine...so, its taken a little more seriously than a bag of weed. Even just a little bit. We know your story...but... Also, I'm guessing you gave the cop consent to search? Or, was it out in the open? But...good luck on getting it cleared...should be an easy win. Especially since you said you had a drug test very soon thereafter. You understand where they were coming from? Oh, your whole family are cops. gotcha. One of the cops was hating pretty hard, kept asking where I worked and such. I guess a white guy can't drive a lex and have gold jewelry/diamonds without being Tony Montana of the prescription-meds game. I told the truth from the jump, one of the cops was a paramedic before and said he knows exactly what I was talking about with the energy drinks, as he's seen it before. There's nothing to understand though. I was in possession of xanax, without a script. There's no point of view, he said she said. I broke a law. My fault. But I refuse to believe i'm more of a threat for having less than half a pill, than someone with two pounds of herb(class 4 vs class 6 felony). I'm lumped into the same group as if I had a gram of heroin, 9 grams of cocaine or methamphetamine, or $1000 worth of MDMA or shrooms. But xanax isn't even in the same class as heroin or any synthetic derivative. You're thinking of oxycontin, which is an opiate, while xanax is a benzodiazepine. Completely different chemical bases and effects. I gave consent to search after notifying the cop of my weapon and such. Remember, the piece of pill was in there for 7 months, I simply forgot about it. Otherwise I would've kept it at home. That's the last time I consent to anything, or am forthcoming with info about my personal items. I'm done with that now. I've always been courteous and notified them of my weapon(s) before they ask(which i'm not legally obligated to do). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustPaus_88TSi Posted September 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 What gave probable cause for search or was it in plain view? I gave consent after they secured my weapon from the glove box, I was sitting on the curb at the time. The pill was tossed into my center console with a bunch of change, some sun glasses and a phone charger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vbrad511 Posted September 9, 2009 Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 They went through the change in your console? If I ever get searched in my truck the lab's gonna have a heyday. They'll be analysing bits of french fries from under the seats for months. They'll have to deal with every Aleve tablet, and sinus pill that may or may not still be in the packaging in the glove box. And if the cop wants to search the toolbox he'll find a harbor freight slimjim, and a handful of screwdrivers, prybars, and multiple other things they could label as potential crime tools. It's pretty obvious it's a work truck, but to some cop having a bad day it might make the bust of the year. Good luck next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pure_insanity Posted September 9, 2009 Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 just one more example of cops gone bad. were they able to determine what the pill even was? sounds like if it was just a 1/4 of the pill, that could have been mistaken for something else and could have been just a tylenol. or was it distinguishable and did they do a chemical analysis to find out exactly what you had there? best of luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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