Update: Victory for Defendants in Two Medical Marijuana Cases

Update: Victory for Defendants in Two Medical Marijuana Cases

Apr 13, 2014

By Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator SAN DIEGO, CA – Over a handful of weeks three state legal medical cannabis patient defendants have had charges dropped against them in two different courts.  Congratulations to Andrew Turner and his attorney, Mark Bluemel and Daniel Gregg with co-defendant, Donna and their...

Jury Verdict- Victory on Day 7 and 8 of People v Dennis and Deborah Little

Jury Verdict- Victory on Day 7 and 8 of People v Dennis and Deborah Little

Mar 18, 2014

By Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator SAN DIEGO, CA –  Dennis and Deborah Little were vindicated in Vista court yesterday, each of one count of possession for sale of marijuana and one of cultivation. The happy moment was shared with several jurors who lingered and hugged the traumatized couple, their attorneys...

Judge Hears Witness Testimony in Medical Marijuana Trial – Day 2 of Dennis and Deborah Littles’ Pre-trial Motions

Judge Hears Witness Testimony in Medical Marijuana Trial – Day 2 of Dennis and Deborah Littles’ Pre-trial Motions

Mar 6, 2014

March 6, 2014 By Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator San Diego, CA – Day two of pretrial motions for Deborah and Dennis Little took place yesterday in the Vista Courthouse as what is referred to as 402 hearings ate up most of the day.  The hearings are a disclosure process the court uses to ascertain if witness...

Prosecution Sanctioned in Medical Marijuana Trial Due to Illegal Evidence Destruction Day 1 of Dennis and Deborah Littles’ Pre-trial Motions

Prosecution Sanctioned in Medical Marijuana Trial Due to Illegal Evidence Destruction Day 1 of Dennis and Deborah Littles’ Pre-trial Motions

Mar 4, 2014

March 4, 2014 By Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator   San Diego, CA – Dennis and Deborah Little were in court in Vista before Judge Richard Munroy with their Attorneys Lance Rogers and Nathan Shaman to take the prosecution to task using what Nathan Shaman referred  to as a Trombetta Motion.  The issue the...

Court Support Request- Motion to Dismiss Felony Medical Marijuana Charges – Vista, CA

Court Support Request- Motion to Dismiss Felony Medical Marijuana Charges – Vista, CA

Mar 3, 2014

Who:     Dennis and Deborah Little What:    Motion to Dismiss – Under Constitution’s Due Process Clause Where:  Dpt. 22 of the Vista Courthouse – 325 S. Melrose Dr., Vista, CA 92081 When:   1:30PM Tuesday, March 2, 2014 UPDATE 03/04/14 8:34 p.m.:  San Diego 6 – The CW – video news report link added below for –...

Briana Bilbrary, Mother Earth Cooperative, Joy Greenfield, et al v. Holder

Briana Bilbrary, Mother Earth Cooperative, Joy Greenfield, et al v. Holder

Jan 4, 2014

According to Lance Rogers, “this case has real legs and is a great vehicle to possibly change the current state of federal persecution of lawful cannabis patients and to establish a fundamental right to medical cannabis”.

Jovan Jackson Sentenced to Probation, Work Furlough but Under Judge’s Order will be Allowed Medical Cannabis Use

Jovan Jackson Sentenced to Probation, Work Furlough but Under Judge’s Order will be Allowed Medical Cannabis Use

Dec 14, 2013

By Terrie Best – San Diego Chapter of Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator December 14th, 2013 San Diego, CA – In a significant loss for San Diego District Attorney, Bonnie Dumanis, Jovan Jackson, a medical cannabis patient and former Answerdam Collective Operator will serve only three years probation and a handful of months in a work...

Medical Marijuana Patient and Provider Jovan Jackson Found Guilty, Headed for Immediate Appeal

Medical Marijuana Patient and Provider Jovan Jackson Found Guilty, Headed for Immediate Appeal

Nov 5, 2013

by Terrie Best Monday, November 4 – In the retrial of San Diego medical cannabis patient and provider Jovan Jackson, the jury on Monday returned guilty verdicts on charges of possession, possession for sale and sale of cannabis. This marks Jackson’s second conviction stemming from a 2009 raid that happened soon after he was acquitted of similar...

Daily Updates From Jovan Jackson Medical Marijuana Trial

Daily Updates From Jovan Jackson Medical Marijuana Trial

Nov 2, 2013

  By Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator Background: Jovan Jackson is a Navy veteran and a directing member of Answerdam, a  San Diego medical cannabis collective twice raided in previous years which resulted in two different criminal trials for Jovan. The first of Jovan’s trials stemmed from a raid in 2008 and...

Jovan Jackson’s Medical Marijuana Trial Begins, Following Lengthy and Revealing Jury Selection Process

Jovan Jackson’s Medical Marijuana Trial Begins, Following Lengthy and Revealing Jury Selection Process

Oct 27, 2013

San Diego CA – Opening statements have ended and the prosecutor has called two witnesses in Jovan Jackson’s third medical cannabis trial.  This, after a telling day and a half of jury selection where we heard at least six potential jurors stand up and say they would not convict on unjust drug laws, resulting in their dismissal from being considered as...

Medical Marijuana Patients’ Defense Counsel Compels Judge to Review Sheriff Deputy File for Evidence of Misconduct

Medical Marijuana Patients’ Defense Counsel Compels Judge to Review Sheriff Deputy File for Evidence of Misconduct

Oct 19, 2013

By Terrie Best – Court Support Coordinator for San Diego Americans for Safe Access Vista, CA – Yesterday medical cannabis patients Dennis and Deborah Little were in the San Diego County Courthouse in Vista as their attorneys Lance Rogers and Logan Fairfax argued a Pitchess Motion asking the court to examine the personnel records of a Deputy Sheriff who...

Jury Instructions Complete in Preparation for Medical Marijuana Patient and Collective Operator Jovan Jackson’s Trial

Jury Instructions Complete in Preparation for Medical Marijuana Patient and Collective Operator Jovan Jackson’s Trial

Oct 7, 2013

By Terrie Best – Court Support Coordinator for The San Diego Chapter of Americans for Safe Access San Diego – Medical marijuana patient and Navy veteran Jovan Jackson, along with his attorney, Lance Rogers assisted by Logan Fairfax and Rezwan Khan were in court Thursday and Friday, October 3rd and 4th 2013, to hammer out jury instructions and motions in...

Motion to Quash Search Warrant Denied by San Diego Superior Court Judge, Prosecutor Claims All Medical Marijuana Patients Are Guilty Until Proven Innocent

Motion to Quash Search Warrant Denied by San Diego Superior Court Judge, Prosecutor Claims All Medical Marijuana Patients Are Guilty Until Proven Innocent

Jul 23, 2013

By Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator July 23, 2013 San Diego, CA – Last week, in San Diego Superior Court, Attorneys Lance Rogers and Logan Fairfax argued their clients, – medical cannabis patients and seriously ill Dennis and Deborah Littles’ – right to privacy was violated when Sheriffs flew over...

Ken Cole Dispensary President Interview – One on One Patients Assiciation

Ken Cole Dispensary President Interview – One on One Patients Assiciation

Jun 6, 2013

Six weeks after the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) raid on ‘One on One Patients Association’, a medical marijuana dispensary located in downtown San Diego, Ken Cole, President of the association along with Lance Rogers, his attorney sat down with Eugene Davidovich of San Diego Americans for Safe Access for an in depth interview about...

Judge Says From Bench He Believes Seriously Ill Medical Marijuana Patients Were Not Selling Their Medical Marijuana but Binds Them Over for Trial Anyway

Judge Says From Bench He Believes Seriously Ill Medical Marijuana Patients Were Not Selling Their Medical Marijuana but Binds Them Over for Trial Anyway

Mar 29, 2013

By Terrie Best, San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator San Diego, CA – Dennis and Deborah Little are a retired couple in their mid-sixties who decided to obtain doctor recommendations to grow and use their own medical cannabis to fight symptoms of arthritis, neuropathy, cancer and AIDS. But, in the fall of 2012, San Diego Sheriff’s...