Posted on 07/12/2011 12:50:19 PM PDT by mojito
EL PASO - A judge has rejected a plea deal that would have resolved Willie Nelson's marijuana possession case in West Texas with a fine, saying the country singer shouldn't get what she considers special treatment.
Nelson was arrested in November after a Border Patrol agent said 6 ounces of marijuana were found on Nelson's tour bus.
Judge Becky Dean-Walker told The Associated Press on Wednesday that she rejected prosecutor Kit Bramblett's suggestion that Nelson resolve the case by pleading guilty and paying a $500 fine for possession of drug paraphernalia.
Dean-Walker claims the prosecutor "doesn't do that for anybody else."
The judge says Nelson should be charged with the misdemeanor marijuana possession, which carries up to a year in jail.
The prosecutor is the one who suggested the fine as part of a plea deal. You know, to get stupid cases off of the docket.
Are you suggesting Willie should have rejected the prosecutor’s offer? That’s kinda silly, doncha think?
BTW, I’d love to have a deck of cards like that.
Send him to the hoosegow so he can see what can be built with the taxes he fails to pay.
Willy is a pot head, tax dodger, liberal hippie, Obama supporter. He should be smart enough to know what getting caught with that much pot in his tour bus would bring him. It’s not the first time he’s been busted. Just because he is a singer he gets special treatment. He should get the same jail time anyone else would get. There should be NO plea deal. Period!
You’re welcome!!! :-)
There should be NO plea deal.
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So your issue is not with Willie in this instance, but the prosecutor with whom you disagree.
If the dope was found ‘on the bus’ why did they arrest him and not, say, the bus driver? Was he dumb enough to say it was his? If it wasn’t on his person and everyone just clammed up even a rookie lawyer should’ve been able to make this go away easily.
They used to toss ya in the can for life for seeds and stems in Texas..
whaddup with Willie?
wifey bumped into him at the Sahara in Vegas a few years back. he was just walking around alone.
Yeah, FRee Willie!
heck, Judge.. go after Kava or Qat users
If he goes to jail then there will be the obligatory album by and about Willie in prison.
bump that
another example of a waste of good taxpayer’s money - still prosecuting old men and women for pot - give me a freaking break - what year is this? 1984????
Mostly yes. I hate any lawyer who would give a plea deal for a habitual offender. And Nelson sure fits that description.
I don’t know about the rest of you but I know I’d feel so much safer with Willie behind bars. Just think about how much easier if would be to sleep at night with such a hardened and dangerous man finally behind bars.
Nelson could actually have a lot of sport with this one.
That is, once all is said and done, he should write a ballad immortalizing the judge, and not in a good way. Being careful to not stray entirely past the libel law, he could make her out to be a hideous, awful, and cruel monster.
It could actually even be funny, in a ridiculous way.
“...then the half-frozen little orphan child dressed in rags offered up her kitten to the judge, and the judge bit off its little tail, so that it screamed in pain. And as the child’s eyes filled with tears, the judge laughed like a demon, and smashed the injured kitten on the dirty floor, before cursing the girl and slapping her across the face hard enough to draw blood. ‘I can do what I want, because I’m a judge’, she cackled.”
I think the issue here is equality before the law.
That is far more important than budgetary issues.
Change the law or enforce it equally for everyone.
Pot has a strong enough hold on it’s users that many of them can never return to being a law abiding citizen again once they start using it.
Even in the military and other jobs that test for drug users, the addicts cannot stop themselves and they lose their careers.
One way to measure if an illegal substance is addicting, is to see if people will trade their careers for it and can’t make themselves simply give it up and move on.
Laws apply to WILLIE. If it were my son out here in West Texas and he was caught with pot in his car... we would be in deep trouble with the law.
He´s conducting ongoing experiments.
Willie's a repeat offender, whether the stuff should be legalized or not. It's not legal in Heaven . . . umm, I mean, Texas.
What chaps my butt is that part of the plea bargain is that the prosecutor wanted Willie to sing "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" for the court. I kid you not. Like a pet monkey.
Heck, throw in him jail for six months, because he broke the law and breaks it repeatedly. But the whole 'sing instead of serving time' idea just doesn't seem Texan to me. Where did we get this prosecutor? Sacramento?
Wait. Maybe the singing “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” requirement was his 2010 pot bust. What with ‘74, ‘94, and the 2006 funeral combination pot/mushroom arrest, along with the 2010 arrest, I get these things mixed up.
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