Crim Law Continues To Be Awesome
Dude, in today's reading we get a note about Leary v. U.S. (395 U.S. 6 (1969)). As in Timothy Leary. Fuck yeah! Apparently you can't presume illegal transport of marijuana from marijuana possession, nor for cocaine, since there are other ways of getting pot and coke than by importing it; but you can for heroin because it ain't made domestically (according to my casebook's editors, whose knowledge of H I can't comment upon). Leary's conviction was overturned by the nice people on the Supreme Court at the start of the Summer of Love.
I can just see it now: at trial, the prosecution brings up the presumption of illegal transport, and Leary mutters to his lawyer, "I did not get that weed in Mexico, I grew it my damn self!" "Uh, objection, Your Honor..." (That's probably not how it went down, but it tickles me to think so.)
I can just see it now: at trial, the prosecution brings up the presumption of illegal transport, and Leary mutters to his lawyer, "I did not get that weed in Mexico, I grew it my damn self!" "Uh, objection, Your Honor..." (That's probably not how it went down, but it tickles me to think so.)