Posted on 06/16/2005 6:38:41 PM PDT by wagglebee
There is a record check done and the clerk of court automatically assigns the case. As a matter of policy AND to avoid a dismissal on selective enforcement the process is done automatically.
nice try.
Actually it's a about POLITICS!
Florida adopted a first offender intervention court system.
Basically a pretrial program which treats addition as a medical issue. The goal is to use the pre-trial release to mandate treatment. At the end there is no criminal record on the person IF they successfully complete treatment.
It is a good program and I have processed clients through the FL system. Rush is being harrassed because he is Rush. If the state attorney had a case it would have gone into the system already. (he also would have tried to play a game with the release of information and earned a bar complaint which will survive the case regardless of outcome.)
Found one -
http://spa.american.edu/justice/publications/Florida%20Statute%20Authorizing%20Drug%20Courts.htm
"Consent for admission to the program must be obtained from the victim, state attorney, and judge who presided at the initial appearance."
Somehow I think the relationship between Rush and the State Attorney might be somewhat strained at this point...
Another thing I am curious about is his exwife. When he come out of rehab he said (paraphrase) he was no longer going to try to please everyone and he soon divorced Marta and we have never heard anything from or about her. I wonder if she had the habit and the housekeeper was supplying her...
you are wrong regardless. I have processed clients into the system. If a state attorney objected I would file a selective enforcement motion so fast the edges of the paper would be singed. (and I would win too.)
as I said.
nice try, you loose.
Not biased at all. There is more money to be made WITHOUT an intervention system. In fact I wouls say just the opposite bias if there was one.
Leni
"If a state attorney objected I would file a selective enforcement motion so fast the edges of the paper would be singed. (and I would win too.) "
So what you are saying is that you never did do that ( ... and it's NOT "automatic" as you insisted before )
and gee, I thought there were so few people EVER prosecuted for this, how could it be called selective ?
Is Rush going to get the victims ( the doctors who issued the overlapping prescriptions ) to sign onto it also ?
never had to do that because it has been automatic for everyone. The ONLY person I have seen who had problems IS RUSH.
Now you are disembling. We are discussing possession offenders. Doctor shopping is a different issue which we have repeatedly discussed every time you go into your pathetic efforts to bash Rush for the sake of bashing Rush.
"We are discussing possession offenders."
Why ? Rush is not under investigation for possession.
"Doctor shopping is a different issue "
Doctor Shopping is the ONLY issue Rush is involved with... when did you go off topic ?
That "Rush" to Judgment- Limbaugh Links
various FR links | 02-02-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1069866/posts
I call it the spaghetti method, toss if against the wall and see if anything sticks.
On the other hand, I get junk mail for superpoenas regularly.
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