5/26/2023 0 Comments How to smoke resin from crack pipe![]() Quick’s conviction and has granted him a new trial, due to the fact that the trial could should have allowed a jury instruction regarding his affirmative defense that he thought there wasn’t cocaine on the pipe. The trial court did not even allow the defense a jury instruction regarding his lack of knowledge, claiming that the defendant conceded that he knew cocaine was illegal.įortunately, the appeals court overturned Mr. The defense argued at trial that the defendant did not know he was possessing cocaine, and knowledge is an affirmative defense to such allegations. ![]() At trial, a lab tech testified that the pipe contained trace amounts of cocaine (to which I usually reply, “so do the dollar bills in your back pocket”). But anyway, the Possession of Cocaine conviction is the odd ball here, because the only cocaine found was the residue on the pipe itself. ![]() Quick’s honesty didn’t pay off, as he was found guilty of both Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and Possession of Cocaine and given 40 months in prison, can you believe that? Your taxpayer dollars hard at work, that’s at least $25,000 a year that won’t go to textbooks or healthcare.
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