| redhill |
| (Banned. Flames, offending others) |
| 05/27/04 11:26 PM |
 Re: Legal question regarding OP users.
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For example, to your legal precedent case, that would only hold true if the all the facts in the cases were the same. In other words, the same type of drug, same amount being ordered over the same period of time, as well as the mitigating factors in the case. For example if the dismissed case was for a 75 year old lady with no insurance and a history of diagnosed chronic illness buying pain meds for her personal use it would have little relation to a 25 year old guy buying large amounts of Vicodin with no medical history of need for them. The differences donít even have to be that dramatic.
I completely understand and agree with your point here, but if we just look at the statistics and the sheer numbers of potential cases (and, incidentally, there is at least some anecdotal evidence that the MIBs do come after us wee 'uns), then perhaps we are able to conclude that there will be some legal precedents set, allowing perhaps for some future unfortunate folks to get a foot in the door as far as mounting a reasonable defensive is concerned. Someone is going to win one from these guys, and a couple of hundred people are probably going to be in a very similar, in not almost identical situation.
My layman's reasoning is somewhere in this realm: if someone like Rush Limbaugh manages to order 1000 illegal OxyContin, yet can manage to escape sentencing, then it must not be in the realm of the impossible that a person ordering #90 Norcos from a "grey area pharmacy" could be set free too? See my point there?
I am just trying to think logically, and I hope that at this late hour I still am.
And partly, I am just wishfully thinking, of course, just in case 10,000 task forces conduct nationwide crackdowns on sick people ordering Vicodin and Tylenol #3, God forbid.
Have a good night!
Redhill
