New Orleans Prosecutor Drops A Joint Out Of His Pocket In Court

TBI ^ | 10-3-2012 | Abby Rogers

[blam]

New Orleans Prosecutor Drops A Joint Out Of His Pocket In Court

Abby Rogers
October 3, 2012

It was business as usual Monday afternoon in the Orleans Parish magistrate court when an assistant city attorney reportedly made a mistake that could haunt him the rest of his career.

Jason Cantrell, the 43-year-old son of a magistrate commissioner, allegedly dropped a joint out of his pocket right in front of New Orleans Police Department officers, The Times-Picayune reported Monday.

Officers reportedly laughed as they escorted Cantrell out of the courtroom and wrote him a summons for simple possession of marijuana.

Marijuana possession in New Orleans is a municipal offense, so police can issue summonses rather than arrest wrongdoers.

A tipster who reported the incident to Above The Law says he has "suspected that more than 50% of the city — and its employees, specifically — are, at any given time, either stoned, drunk, or on a three hour lunch."

[blam]

There's a reason it's called The Big Easy.

63% of the residents of New Orleans cannot read or write.

[dalebert]

dey all on welfayer

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Jason Cantrell

[unixfox]

I’ve always said that if we MANDATED every government employee to take a random drug and alcohol test we would easily find 47% need to be fired.

[Jake8898]

I take offense at this. I don’t use marijuana and I can only down 3 Sazeracs in my 90 minute lunch.

[Ezekiel]

“Handout”

lol

[matginzac]

Obozo’s America...
Stoned, drunk, on three hour lunches...

[TomGuy]

’ ... but, Your Honor, it was evidence in another case, and I was carrying it to maintain the chain-of-custody. Honest. Sir.’

[circlecity]

DOH!!!!

[King Hawk]

I can almost smell Bourbon Street and that lavender soapy street wash.

[Red Badger]

...a mistake that could haunt him the rest of his career.

What career?...............

[Red Badger]

I can smell it and I’m 240 miles away.............

[HereInTheHeartland]

I work inside a bank that has been targeted by the local Occupy branch for protests.
This spring during one of the protests; the group had 3 people who planned ahead of time they would be arrested.

One of them was one of the groups leaders.

He was arrested but overlooked something. He forgot to take the drugs out of his pockets ahead of time!!
The police and us thought that was quite humorous!

[Hugin]

A tipster who reported the incident to Above The Law says he has "suspected that more than 50% of the city — and its employees, specifically — are, at any given time, either stoned, drunk, or on a three hour lunch."

Nice work if you can get it. But then again, we're taking about a city with drive up daqueri stands.

[Xenalyte]

“A tipster suspects.” Wow, that’s pretty sound evidence right there.

[svcw]

Where did you get that figure?
It might be correct, but a illiteracy rate that high ..... hum?

[hadaclueonce]

Someone get a search warrant for his freezer. Just saying...

[Cowgirl of Justice]

The police laughed?

Is this guy in any trouble at all? Is he able to represent the state against lawbreakers such as himself?

[Red Badger]

This is Nawlins, things are a little different........

[knarf]

"It might be correct, but a illiteracy rate that high ..... hum?

It might be correct, but aN illiteracy rate that high ..... hum?

Where, in The Quarter, do YOU live, svcw ?

/8^)