Litigation
Aug. 5, 2014
Counties tackle longstanding concern about returning medical pot to criminal defendants
There is still ambiguity about whether state peace officers can return seized medical marijuana to defendants after a criminal case ends without violating federal law, years after California legalized the drug.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Last week, Jeffrey Schwartz, a criminal defense attorney in Humboldt County, was readying a motion that would ask the court to order police to return his client's medical marijuana. It was seized along with other items for an unrelated offense, and now that the case has concluded, the client hopes to get back his ounce of medical marijuana.
In the Northern California county, which is home to so...
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