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The media has been getting the court info about 35% correct. Many of the media stories have been sent out from CNN reporters in miami over 90 miles away.

The behavior of the media tells me they are intentionally being ignorant about the FL drug court program. Each Circuit has a judge who is assigned to first offender cases. As part of the pretrial release the defendant goes to treatment and does community service.

If the defendant fails to complete treatment or gives a dirty urine sample, they are violated out of the program and have a choice of pleaing the case for regular plea based on guidelines or transfering their case randomly to regular criminal circuit court.

Before you could plea you have to have charges and the charges have yet to be made. (Remember they have dumped using the maid to say she illegally sold him drugs. So much for the Cigar Box of Dooooom.) The Roy Black letter was a means of fishing to see what the prosecutor has in mind and to offer an orchestrated charge and plea combination.

Usually there are not the time and budgetary resources to devote to a mere user case. A first time defendant who offers on a silver platter to go into drug court is a godsend to overworked prosecutors.

The filing attorney would then be able to directly mark the case for drug court and assign more serious cases to the court prosecutor who actually has to try the cases.

Interesting. Thanks.

"Remember they have dumped using the maid to say she illegally sold him drugs. So much for the Cigar Box of Dooooom."

When did they announce this ?

I believe Black was the one who said they were no longer looking into it... when did he get on the SA's payroll ?