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Showing posts with label POT CONVICTIONS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label POT CONVICTIONS. Show all posts

Sunday, May 31, 2015

HARTFORD COURANT REPORTS CONNECTICUT JUDGES POISED TO ERASE POT CONVICTIONS!

Dave Collins of the Associated Press reports in The Hartford Courant as follows:


"Connecticut judges have granted more than 80 percent of requests to erase marijuana possession convictions since the state decriminalized small amounts of pot in 2011, state Judicial Branch records show.

Superior Court judges have approved 32 of 39 petitions to erase convictions for marijuana possession in the past four years, after Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and state lawmakers downgraded possession of less than a half-ounce of pot from a misdemeanor with potential jail time to a violation akin to a parking ticket, with fines ranging from $150 for a first offense to up to $500 for subsequent offenses.

Although the number of erasures is small compared with the thousands of arrests for marijuana possession in Connecticut over the years, defense lawyers expect many more people to apply as word spreads about a recent state Supreme Court decision. The court ruled in March that people have the right to get their convictions erased..."

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