.....uh-oh's...just to be sure, you're saying the tampa area is harsher than the boston area?
I probably shouldn't have started this thread, I'm not even comfortable listing the drugs, the area, how many were there, etc, god forbid I wrote something wrong I couldn't forgive myself and I'm writing this 'privately'...
Okay, this is as good as I can do - and mods: sry, but feel free to delete if need be - but based on the degree of the felonies and all that, the charges (according to FL law) should be the same as if one were walking past a cop on the street and happened to drop a baggie w/ cocaine powder, a baggie with a few various pain pills (all different pills = different class3 felonies here), a nug of pot, and a pot pipe. That's almost exactly what happened (even the substances), no other factors - where they were caught, how the drugs were discovered, etc - are of zero relevance (I assure you!).
I've been trying to figure this out for the party I'm concerned with, and it seems that trying to get drug court is the best option here...
Sorry I cannot just link the arrest report or something - not only is anonymity required due to my attempts to get this person into drug court instead of criminal court, but the other party who was caught w/ them...well...we're *100%* unsure on what they're doing, haven't spoken/seen them once since the arrest, so I cannot allow them to have any idea about my 'party' if that makes sense (and to be clear - neither of them were dealers or anything, there were drugs that were purchased for personal usage. But I'm not a lawyer, I don't know if it's possible to say "personX was the one who paid for the baggie, so they 'dealt' it to personY", or "personX enabled/pressured personY". Both people had the same charges, and both are not the types that would try to flip on people (not that it'd be very realistic anyways, odds are they couldn't located the hobo's they got the shit from in the 1st place....)
/again - this is NOT me!! I know everyone always writes that, but srsly just wait and see when I don't disappear!!