$150 drug deal could cost gran all her assets

[jabez]

$150 drug deal could cost gran all her assets

 

An Innaloo grandmother found guilty of selling cannabis for the third time in a decade stands to have her assets seized under WA's criminal property laws.

 

Rolande, 57, who asked that her surname remain confidential, was found guilty in December of selling 14g of cannabis to a friend for $150.

 

She faces losing about $150,000 worth of assets left by her late father, after the Director of Public Prosecutions Joseph McGrath refused a request for leniency.

 

Rolande admitted yesterday she was "no angel" but insisted she had turned over a new leaf and was not a drug dealer. "I stopped pot maybe 12 months ago now," she said. "I'd given it up. I'd changed my life."

 

But in August, Rolande said she found 14g of cannabis in a cupboard. When a sick friend called trying to find cannabis, she relented. "Because she was diagnosed with throat cancer I thought I was doing the right thing," she said.

 

Rolande's lawyer, Justine Fisher, said that in delivering his verdict Perth magistrate Joe Randazzo had noted the sale was a one-off transaction, and that the motivation was to benefit a friend with a medical condition.

 

A spokeswoman for Mr McGrath said the Act's provisions were clear.

 

Author: JOSEPH CATANZARO

Date: March 10, 2011

Source: The West Australian

Copyright: West Australian Newspapers Limited 2011

Edited March 11, 2011 by jabez

[olddave]

a private sale between friends that ends up in a bust????

[Nooby]

Nice country we live in where you commit a victimless 'crime' (how can you have a crime without a victim?) and Big Brother steals your house, yet commit murder, rape theft etc and get slap on the wrist or a bit of gaol time?

 

Can we just wipe out all the bullshit they've foisted on us over the last 200 years and start again please?

 

 

(p.s. doe anyone know the case details? I'd sure like to read the transcript to make sure those media jerks aren't giving us the run around again.)

Edited March 12, 2011 by Nooby

[Hotrod13]

a private sale between friends that ends up in a bust????

"WTF!"......................................................Some Friend?????????

[creedy]

hmmm i might just check all my cupboards for 14 grams of weed that i forgot about.

i think old gran was a dealer from way back. and seriously sting a friend $150 thats dying of throat cancer for weed that she found.

 

i dont think i could ask money off a friend for weed that was dying of cancer. after i quit and found the stuff.

[Psychonaut]

I will be really surprised if her assets are seized, find it hard to believe it will be taken that far for this, then I am sure it would be appealed.

 

Will be amazing if she does