Willie may have to sing in court for pot charge

[Seedersandleechers]

EL PASO, Texas — A West Texas prosecutor says that singer Willie Nelson can resolve marijuana possession charges if he agrees to plead guilty, pay a fine and sing "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" for the court.

County Attorney Kit Bramblett told The Associated Press Friday that he recommended those penalties to Hudspeth County's judge Becky Dean-Walker. Bramblett says the judge specifically demanded that Nelson appear in court instead of pleading by mail, a common procedure in these cases.

Bramblett says, "She wants to meet Willie."

Dean-Walker did not immediately return a call Friday.


http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/7491674.html

[Webster Green]

1. These recent stories about this have left out the best part...

Or maybe it got scrubbed.

Check out what the DA said:

"Bramblett handles 10 or 12 personal use cases every month. The 6.24 ounces that was found when Willie was arrested is above the amount Bramblett can handle in his jurisdiction. Well, no problem.

“Between me and the sheriff, we threw out enough of it or smoked enough so that there’s only three ounces, which is within my jurisdiction,” Bramblett said."

“I’m gonna let him plead, pay a small fine and he’s gotta sing “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” with his guitar right there in the courtroom,” County Attorney Kit Bramblett said this week. “You bet your ass I ain’t gonna be mean to Willie Nelson.”

http://bigbendnow.com/2011/03/for-a-song-willie%E2%80%99s-pot-case-will-be-resolved/

edited for changed link)

[Obamanaut]

2. It was in this one ->

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=439&topic_id=733826

[Webster Green]

11. Right, that's the same link I posted.

I've seen the story on several more mainstream sources, and they left out the joke about smoking some of the pot with the sheriff.

[Obamanaut]

14. I meant it was in the OP. Days ago. nt

[Webster Green]

20. Yes, and I'm pointing out that later articles clipped out some stuff.

And I'm suggesting that perhaps they are censoring the joking remarks by the DA about smoking pot with the sheriff because they have an agenda that doesn't include anything pro-cannabis.

Got it? :smoke:

[Ian David]

3. Did the D.A. just admit to smoking pot with Willie Nelson and the sheriff? n/t

[kentauros]

5. It does read that way

[TroglodyteScholar]

6. It was a joke.

He goes on to explain that the weight drops when you ultimately remove the containers from the total weight.

[Jack Rabbit]

7. What a novel idea to solve the problem of overcrowded prisons

Everybody, not just Willie Nelson, should should be able to beat a marijuana rap for a song.

[juajen]

9. They better not ever put Willie in jail again. The protests would

be huge, and I would be part of the party. He is a precious American icon.

[Ian David]

4. Free Willie!

[WingDinger]

8. This will use the coffehouse model, and we will see pot broadway inside dispensaries

[SoCalDem]

10. How insane.:(

[UTUSN]

12. Allow me to buck the tide: It ain't cute; it's a mockery of a legal system; and thousands of regular

people have been castigated out of proportion for the same thing. It just ain't cute.

[jdlh8894]

13. Not only"ain't cute"

This is a complete buttslap to our legal system!
Why are celebertys treated different than the common man?

[Bake]

15. If everybody else gets to plead out, why does Willie have to do a free show?

In this case, the celebrity is being required to do MORE than the "regular" person.

Bake

[jdlh8894]

17. You go to court.

Attempt to say that 1/2 the weight was "packaging"
See how far YOU get with the Judge?

[girl gone mad]

16. He's being treated worse, not better.

[Webster Green]

19. I disagree.

The remarks by the DA, joking about smoking pot with the sheriff, illustrates that many law enforcement officers know that pot is no big deal. A lot of these guys are tired of enforcing the stupid laws against cannabis. Stuff like this can help the anti-prohibition efforts.

Things are changing. Everyone now knows damn well that cannabis has medicinal value. A lot of folks are aware that recreational use is no big deal compared to alcohol and other drugs. The horse is way out of the barn here in California. You have to try pretty hard to get busted for pot here. Our local cops couldn't care less about pot. Colorado is great as well. Many other states are now coming around.

We need to keep the momentum going and end the idiotic prohibition on cannabis, including industrial hemp, which would be a great resource, if the feds would lighten up and stop lying about the stuff. :hippie:

[UTUSN]

21. We agree on some points, not others

Agree: Medicinal value. Indigenous Mexicans say it is "to numb pain, when a woman is in childbirth or a broken limb for a man.

Disagree: "recreational use is no big deal." See medicinal value, above.

Agree: industrial use.


Agree: "stop lying about the stuff." Mexicans have said for scores of years that if USERS in the U.S. didn't have a DEMAND for it ("recreationally") there wouldn't be that trafficking SUPPLY of it from Mexico. It's a problem HERE, of OURS: We could stop futile and expensive "war on drugs" and spend lots less in education, rehabilitation, and social services about it. "Recreation" ain't where it's at.

People on trains whose drivers were smoking would disagree it's no big deal.

[Webster Green]

22. You make no argument for prohibition for recreational use.

Have you ever been stoned? It's really quite nice, and very safe. Why should the government be involved?

[jdlh8894]

18. I plan to be there !

Free concert in a courtroom!