Posted on 09/23/2007 8:05:43 PM PDT by JTN
More on Richard Paey
Casualties of the stupid drug war.
Yeah, but just think of all those neat guns and cool toys LE gets to buy using seized money/property while keeping us safe from people in pain and the vicious and dangerous pot smokers.
That poor guy! I’m starting to lose faith in juries more and more. So many have been conditioned to believe the government to be right unless proven wrong that due process is almost impossible now. A person in a suit and tie on behalf of the government can get a jury to believe anything, and a judge will allow almost any case to proceed no matter the lack of evidence.
I live in Hudson. Just hearing about this case is frightening.
Paey is a Harvard educated attorney who it took several trials to convict. I think, if a man like this can be railroaded, what chance do the rest of us have?
My girlfriend was telling me a case the other day about a couple of homeschoolers she knew who were conducting a science experiment in the front yard with vinegar and baking soda. Their parents were in the house. The kids were arrested by a passing cop and hauled away in handcuffs without the parents even knowing what happened.
It took a lot of friends and work to keep them from being charged and sent away. I think, what is wrong with the justice system that ordinary people living life can be persecuted like this?
Ok - I have no doubt that this fellow has pain, and that he needs pain medication. But exactly what is law enforcement suppose to think when they find someone with 700 Percocet? that is a lot! Why carry that much with you, particularly when the prescriptions were filled at different times?
Something still smells.
You would be surprised how easy it is to sway a jury; especially if one tell half-truths.
After the OJ verdict you still had faith in juries?
Remember that the only people who have time to sit on juries are either government employee apparatchiks or people who are either too stupid to get out of jury duty or really don't have a lot to do during the day.
God help anybody who gets to be judged by the likes of that crowd.
Too many people look at another person and see the potential for evil. It is the truth of Conservatism that when one looks at another they see the potential for good.
Apparently he was found to have purchased a total of 700 percocets in three months, it's poorly written at best. Nowhere does it say that he had all 700 on him.
God help anybody who gets to be judged by the likes of that crowd
I see you you take your civic duty seriously.
If your "crowd" would do a better job, why don't you take the time to fulfill your responsibility?
unbelievable.
Do you work for the government?
When Paey and his family moved to Florida in 1994, he had trouble finding a new doctor. Because he had developed tolerance to the pain medication, he needed high doses, and because he was not on the verge of death, he needed them indefinitely.
Unable to find a local physician who was comfortable taking him on as a patient, Paey used undated prescription forms from Nurkiewicz's office (which is ILLEGAL)to obtain painkillers in Florida. Paey says Nurkiewicz authorized these prescriptions, which the doctor denies.
The Pasco County Sheriff's Office began investigating Paey in late 1996 after receiving calls from suspicious pharmacists. Detectives tracked Paey as he filled prescriptions for 1,200 pills (in three months) from January 1997 until his arrest that March.
Paey had purchased — 18,000 in two years
They also found 60 empty bottles of pain relievers
25 pills a day
he illegally possessed Percocet and other pills weighing more than 28 grams, enough to classify him as a drug trafficker under Florida's law
His back pain didn't stop him from having more children.
They discovered letterhead from Dr. Nurkiewicz and other stuff that also suggested forgery.
Two every four hours is 12 per day, or 84 per week. Evidently, he wasn’t even taking the maximum dose, or he’d have gone through 840 in 10 weeks.
Pain management is so necessary, just for normal life, for some people. God bless this poor guy, hope he lives peacefully from now on, he deserves it.
I hate lawyers, judges, and lazy government employees way too much to hang out at the courthouse.
Juries, how about the idiot who decided to prosecute this guy? How about the police who forwarded an information to the prosecutor even though they failed to find any evidence he was selling to anyone.
There are many steps at which this could have been stopped. The fact that it was not is just more evidence all of these laws need to be repealed legislatively.
I have been on Percocet at time myself after serious surgery.
2/10 mg every 6 hours for weeks.....that’s a couple a hundred pills per month
man...some of these John Law dope cops are such Nazis....and min/mans and confiscation laws
they throw common sense out the window
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