no they have not.
When this originally broke it was revealed that palm beach had ONE case and that case was ONLY prosecuted when the defendent had reniged on a negotiated cooperation plea.
The bottom line is that the State Attorney is not actually after doctor shopping, the State Attorney is trying to charge rush of being a dealer. As a dealer a defendant is not automatically shunted into first time drug offender court which has the net result of ZERO criminal record.
It would be same as that south florida democrat who was caught with perscription drugs she was not supposed to have.
Yes they have. Palm Beach may not have had many arrests and jail sentences for doctor shopping, but the poorer counties in Florida certainly have. And it's very typical for prosecuters to charge people with an amount of drugs over a certain limit with "intent to distribute." That's why so many non-violent drug offenders without priors are in jail!
It's BS -- I just wish people would protest this governmental overreach for anonymous fellow citizens as well as for Rush.
Prosecutions are not a good measure.
In the vast majority of drug cases, defendants are intimidated into plea bargains by property seizure and the threat of vastly piled-on charges.
If prosecutors actually had to prove one case in four, the whole Drug War edifice would topple.