Dartmouth arrests

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<p>The mother of all fraternity drug busts:</p>

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<p>Agree. I have a personal friend who, at age 30-something, was caught in the act buying rock cocaine from a drug-dealer on the streets of L.A. As it was his first offense, he was sentenced only to a diversion program. I think the prosecution of these students was relatively harsh.</p>

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<p>So did they graduate? Get suspended? Get kicked out of the fraternity?</p>

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Luck has nothing to do with it. It’s all about money. These guys from Dartmouth had plenty of money for lawyers who’d continue delaying the charges and whittling down the charges until it was zilch. </p>

<p>By the time they plead a case, everything had been decided in the back offices and conference phone calls and briefs between the DA and the lawyers. That’s always how it is in every case. Sadly, this is another example of a DA who wimps out by aggressive lawyers and even more clear because the State’s dealing with a budget crunch, so they don’t have a lot of time to waste arguing cases they won’t win. The fact that this was a first offense for these guys is just part of the reasons why these kids didn’t get a conviction. But the not-so-wealthy clients don’t get off like that.</p>

<p>That’s what it took: good, high paid lawyers. Luck had nothing to do with it.</p>

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<p>No, the state had weak evidence, that is why they offered the plea bargain:</p>

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<p>Many of these small college towns have ill will towards students and will take them to the mat. Many of these towns also have amateur police forces. I agree they didn’t have the evidence.</p>

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<p>zweebopp</p>

<p>seems more likely that they didn’t have ENOUGH money and the state leveraged that against them</p>

<p>appears to have been a VERY weak case</p>

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<p>Almost nobody, rich or poor, is going to actually go to jail for a first-offense drug possession conviction. They plead, and get a suspended sentence and/or probabation. But somebody who wants to go to law school, etc., isn’t primarily concerned about going to jail–they are more concerned about long-term effects of having that conviction. So they have a strong motivation to fight the charges, to try to plead to a non-felony, etc. They will spend money on lawyers to do this, because it’s worth it to them to do so, whether they are rich or not.</p>

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<p>As a side note, powdered cocaine is not Addictive. I’m guessing the charges are possession, as I don’t believe actual drug use is a crime. Some people tend to overreact when it comes to drugs, but maybe they were dealing coke out of their rooms.</p>

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Say WHAT???</p>

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Where in the world did you get that idea? It may be less addictive than crack cocaine, but it’s still addictive.</p>