Posted on 11/29/2010 7:23:29 PM PST by Libloather
Willie Nelson Will Likely Go to Jail for Pot Bust, Expert Says
By Hollie McKay
Published November 29, 2010
FoxNews.com
Willie Nelson was arrested in Sierra Blanca, Texas on Friday for possession of six ounces of pot. As a result, the country music legend faces as many as two years behind bars.
If the Texas prosecutors do not reduce the charges, and the marijuana's weight is indeed six ounces, then he is dealing with felony and a potential minimum of 180 days in a county jail and a maximum of two years, with a $10,000 fine, explained former California-based prosecutor, Robin Sax.
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Nelson, 77, was arrested with one-and-a-half pounds of marijuana and three ounces of hallucinogenic mushrooms on his tour bus in 2006, and nine years before that, police in Waco, Texas spotted a joint in his cars ash tray, prompting another arrest.
Texas is more stringent than California so he could face time. One of the issues that the court and prosecutors will look at is his prior record and given the fact that he has several arrests, even recent ones, for pot related crimes," Sax said. "I would not be surprised if Texas decided to stick it to him."
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No, I mean I believe breaking the law is wrong whether you’re a democrat president lying under oath or a country music singer breaking existing anti-drug laws.
Stupid is as stupid does!
Willie is a pretty good pilot, albiet one certainly without a medical these days.
Back when he was really hot, he had a Gulfstream 1. He could come up on Ft. Worth Center frequencies late at night, enroute home.
The controllers at FWC knew whose airplane it was, and it was obviously Willie at the controls, so they would just communicate with him with the radio call “Air Willie.”
I know of at least five cases... two in Louisiana... where willy was busted with over a pound... he is willy... he is a dim... he is a commie... he will walk this time too... watch.
LLS
Hi FRiend,
willy ain’t going to jail... maybe an IHOP or AwfulWaffle... but not jail.
LLS
Repeat offender with enough quantity to qualify as “trafficking”.
Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the crime. Quit holding “everybody else’s stash”, Willie.
If this were some 50 year old hip hop artist, “sharin’ the wealth”, the reaction might be different.
Locking up David Crosby saved his life and his career and got him off of crack.
The OJ defense doesn’t always work.
Johnny Cash was also a national treasure but he made a wreck out of his life with pill and drug addiction.
The libs are pushing for a 99 year sentence for Tom DeLay.
81 is the new 18.
The Secretary of the Treasury is a tax cheat so I guess like pot laws, we should just get rid of all tax penalties.
Keep the laws to file on the book but just do what you want.
Good enough for Willie and Tim.
Willie did a rambling medley of his songs this year when I saw him. Seemed more concerned with putting the audience’s hats on that they tossed up to him and that he’d don and then throw back.
I’ve seen much better shows from him ages ago.
It'd help out the local budget a lot more than lock up costs would.
JFK smoked pot in the White House.
Jane Fonda is still a traitor as is John Kerry and Bill Ayers. Willie has not engaged in such transgressions to be sure but just noting that there are some political and criminal deeds that are difficult to overlook.
Didn't Leadbelly get pardoned from death row TWICE over his songster abilities?
"Mickey Raphael, Nelson's longtime harmonica player, spoke with Rolling Stone magazine regarding the incident and Nelson's release, telling the magazine that "he said he feels great -- he lost six ounces."
Here's Mickey on the left, with his mother and Kinky Friedman.
Hudspeth County Texas Sherriff Arvin West
"It's kind of surprising, but I mean we treat him like anybody else," West told the El Paso Times. "He could get 180 days in county jail, which if he does, I'm going to make him cook and clean. He can wear the stripy uniforms just like the other ones do."
On the road again ...
Maybe the dope isn’t for personal use but rather to get groupie girls to put out.
as opposed to another reggae album?
But by gawd we nailed Willie for 6 ounces of pot!!!!!
Color me "underwhelmed"...
He’d better hope that he gets better representation from Dick DeGuerin than Tom Delay or David Koresh got. He did manage to get Billy Joe Shaver off the charge of shooting a man in the face with a gun after an argument at a bar.
WTF Willie,, you should have moved to Cali and got a medical cannibis card years ago.
Maybe next time huh?
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