A xanbar is a 2mg dose, which is a substantial amount. A person taking one or more of these a day is well on their way to one Hell of an addiction.
Posted on 05/16/2016 11:14:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The arrest affidavit said Penelope Soto spontaneously told authorities she was on Xanax bars before her arrest
What began as a young South Florida woman’s defiant profanity and waving of the middle finger to a judge earlier this week turned into an etiquette lesson Friday — when the tearful woman publicly apologized for her behavior.
Penelope Soto’s flipping the bird at Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Jorge Rodriguez-Chomat on Monday had landed her a 30-day jail sentence for contempt of court, and it drew national headlines as a video of it went viral online.
But Friday, 18-year-old Soto was solemn as she acknowledged to Rodriguez-Chomat that she was wrong for insulting him. Her lawyer and relatives stood next to her as she apologized.
"My behavior was very irrational, and I apologize not only to the court and you, but to my family,” Penelope Soto told Rodriguez-Chomat.
Responding to her apology, Rodriguez-Chomat dropped the 30-day contempt sentence he had imposed on her when she first appeared before him on a Xanax possession charge. Among the reasons he cited for dropping her contempt sentence were her being a first-time offender, her admission that she had abused Xanax, her willingness to overcome her addiction by attending a drug-treatment program and her apology.
Rodriguez-Chomat said Soto wasn’t entirely to blame for her behavior.
“I should not even call you as totally responsible. We live in a society where if you listen to music, every other word is a profanity,” Rodriguez-Chomat said. “We live in a society where young people like you feel like it’s perfectly OK to call all kinds of names to their teachers and their professors and their friends. And they think that’s OK.”
/ Rodriguez-Chomat continued: “We live in a society where police officers are abused on a daily basis, mostly by young people who believe it’s OK to call policemen all kinds of names.
That’s totally unacceptable.”
Penelope Soto Returns to Court[MI] Penelope Soto Returns to Court Penelope Soto, the woman who was sentenced to 30 days in jail for giving a Miami-Dade judge the middle finger, returns to court. (Published Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013) Rodriguez-Chomat also did away with the $10,000 bond he had set, enabling Soto to be released from jail straight from the courtroom.
Soto’s lawyer also publicly apologized on her client’s behalf and said Soto was impaired by her ingestion of drugs and alcohol before she acted out in court Monday.
“That impairment, even though I don’t condone her actions, led her to the conduct that was contemptuous before you,” Soto’s lawyer said.
Soto’s legal case began Sunday, when authorities arrested her after she allegedly told them she was “on Xanax bars” and three green baggies filled with Xanax were found in her purse, an arrest affidavit said.
At Monday’s hearing, Soto smiled and stroked her hair, and laughed when Rodriguez-Chomat asked her about her jewelry and other assets for the purposes of setting her bond amount.
"It's not a joke, you know. We're not in a club now," Rodriguez-Chomat told her at the time. "We are not in a club. Be serious about it."
"I'm serious about it. You just made me laugh," Soto replied. "You just made me laugh. I apologize. It's worth a lot of money."
Rodriguez-Chomat had initially set her bond at $5,000 and said "bye-bye," and Soto laughed and replied "Adios." Rodriguez-Chomat summoned her back and raised her bond to $10,000, shocking Soto.
"Are you serious?" she asked.
"I am serious. Adios."
Soto started to walk away when she flipped Rodriguez-Chomat the middle finger and blurted "[expletive] you."
She was called back again, and Rodriguez-Chomat handed down the 30-day contempt sentence.
At Friday's hearing, Soto paused as she apologized because she began to tear up.
“Don’t cry,” the judge told her.
With tears, Soto smiled briefly at the judge.
“Oh, I made you laugh, but it’s all right,” he said. He asked her to keep going with her apology. “Go ahead, tell me,” he said.
She said, “I normally don’t act like that,” then she sighed.
The judge asked whether she took any Xanax the day she was arrested. She said, “Yes, I did. Two.”
The judge told Soto he hoped she had learned several lessons since Monday.
“Lesson No. 1 is that drugs can put you in a very difficult situation,” he said. “It is because of your use of Xanax -- which I understand is a party drug -- can put you, convert you, make you a felon, a convicted felon.”
He continued: “It can put you in a county jail like you have been.”
As Friday’s hearing concluded, the judge wished Soto well.
“Good luck to you, Miss Soto,” he said. “I really do hope that you learned your lesson.”
Xanax by by itself will make you a very pleasant person, much like being on marijuana, however, combine that with alcohol and you become an a****** very quickly
I didn’t know Xanax came in bars?
This happened three years ago.
A xanbar is a 2mg dose, which is a substantial amount. A person taking one or more of these a day is well on their way to one Hell of an addiction.
I had no idea that Xanax was a party drug. I thought it was an anti-depressant.
Xanax is used to treat anxiety disorders, panic disorders, and anxiety caused by depression.”
It is a tranquilizer. People I know who’ve used it, were given it for anxiety.
Squish judge no doubt feeling the heat from SJWs.
Bring her back after her 30 days and see what she has to say.
18 years old and taking that BS. Her future isn’t bright. Too many over medicated people in this nation.
It would be interesting to know if she has straightened up or has been back into trouble in the last three years.
Four days? That’s it? I’ve spent more time for three unpaid parking tickets (fully matured at $120).
The only thing that Xanax does to me is to calm me down and then it makes me very tired and I usually take a little nap. I don’t take it very often and my dosage is small but for anyone with a panic/anxiety disorder it is a God send. It really pisses me off that people abuse it because it makes physicians apprehensive to prescribe it to those who need it and of course the knee jerks running the FDA will then want to make it even harder to get it.
Judge: Madame, are you trying to show CONTEMPT for this court?
Mae West: No, Judge. I was trying very hard to CONCEAL it!”
(My Little Chickadee, 1940)
That is actually how it is referred to.
Not sure I understand why but, they are called bars.
What happens if I combine Xanax with cannabis?
Because it seems like a good idea.
I just had to take one. I had to call AT&T and deal with those people. I hate dealing with AT&T.
I’d take two if I had to deal with those call center idiots.
There is no need to harm the innocent in order to deal with addicts’ actions, but the govt seems to LIKE to harm the innocent.
Remember that R. Crumb cartoon where the stoned dude's face literally melts away?
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