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Posted by CN Staff on May 08, 2002 at 10:13:56 PT Editorial Source: Sacramento Bee 
Yuba County law enforcement officials were convinced the Satterfield family possessed something illegally. That something was confiscated. But a judge ruled that the couple had broken no state law and ordered the sheriff to return this something. Sheriff Virginia Black for a while refused, risking the prospect of being held in contempt of court. Why?This something, of course, is marijuana. Belinda Satterfield has breast cancer, and smokes marijuana to combat nausea from chemotherapy. Doyle Satterfield says he smokes pot because of his insomnia and arthritis. Snipped Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help |
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| Comment #2 posted by goneposthole on May 08, 2002 at 12:14:46 PT |
| Who was minding their own buisness? Sheriff Black was sticking her nose into somebody else's business, and learned a hard lesson. The difficulty of learning that lesson when you think you can operate above the law, and find out you are outside the law is hard to figure.
She was trying to hide behind the skirt of Mother DEA. What amazes me is that the DEA did not raid the courtroom when the Satterfield's had their cannabis returned under court order. DEA agents could have dynamited the couthouse doors, and confiscated the plants and 'dried material'. The judge and law-abiding citizens be damned. Attila-the-DEA agent is scratching his head over this one. It is hard for him to imagine he would be breaking the law. [ Post Comment ] |
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Comment #1 posted by kaptinemo on May 08, 2002 at 10:47:10 PT:
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| ...under threat of jail. Which you have to wonder how many people have been arrested by Sheriff Black and suffered in her jail for lack of cannabis? Black made brave noises, no doubt looking for Freddy The Fed to step in and give her an umbrella for the coming legal p*ssing match she was trying to initiate. They may even have promised her something if she 'cooperated' with them in obstructing California law. But a similar case, which had the asinine Sheriff of another county try to end run the State order to return stolen cannabis by giving it to Feds blew up in his face (the magistrates the Feds went to to get the seizure warrant signed refused to do so) the writing was on the wall. If Sheriff Black had been paying more attention, she would have known about the pointlessness of her position. But swine rarely learn from their mistakes without some degree of pain applied along with the lesson. Now it falls to the constituents of Yuba County to let her know in no uncertain terms that if she doesn't apologize, her job is on the chopping block. And there are lots of pissed-off MMJ patients and civil libertarians with enough strength to pull a voting lever to punctuate that lesson. [ Post Comment ] |
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