Here’s the whole story: My brother is a huge junkie on basically everything. He bought $400 of coke on credit, and his boyfriend had to pay it off for him so they wouldn’t shoot up their house. My brother felt terrible about this, and while high on the coke, called the cops and turned over the rest of his coke to them, and asked that they arrest him and force him into rehab, since he’s never had the willpower to stay in rehab on his own. So they did, and now he’s in detox for 3 days.
My question is: since he voluntarily turned over his drugs and asked to be arrested and put in rehab, do you think he’ll go through the whole criminal justice part and be put in prison as well? I’ve pretty much written him off as a lost cause long ago, but if he could get better and get the treatment he needs (he also has mild schitzophrenia and is severely bipolar), and stayed clean, I’d be very happy and start talking to him again.
His only prior convictions are minor in possession, and he got a ticket and community service for a small amount of weed one time. Unrelated to drugs and alcohol, he caused a bad wreck one time, and I don’t know how that one turned out. I think it was just a steep fine. I don’t know if it matters, but he lives in North Carolina… maybe the laws are different there.
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March 30th, 2010 at 9:10 pm
Drug possession is the last thing the courts have to worry about when it comes to incarceration… I doubt there will be time in the initial sentence.
However if they give your brother probation which is more likely and he fails the terms of the probation, and has to go before the same judge again for violating probation, say for testing positive for drugs, he could be in for some trouble. Some judges take it personally when their sentences are not followed, and will serve up time the second time around.
March 30th, 2010 at 8:21 pm
I don’t think the cops will prosecute any farther since he is in treatment now. He does need a longer stay than that though and to address his mental illness.
March 30th, 2010 at 8:07 pm
What a sad situation, drugs are the black plague of our generation. I think the outcome of this depends on what kind of history your brother has with law enforcement. If this is his 15th bust then it is not likely they will just let him walk away. After all that didn’t work in the past so why would they think that this would be the last time. A judge would look at incarceration as a way of helping your brother with his problem.