Medical Marijuana Advocates Rally Around Terminally Ill Medical Marijuana Patient Defendants Today in Vista Court as Prosecutor Admits to Receiving over Sixty Calls From Citizens Requesting Compassion for Defendants

Medical Marijuana Advocates Rally Around Terminally Ill Medical Marijuana Patient Defendants Today in Vista Court as Prosecutor Admits to Receiving over Sixty Calls From Citizens Requesting Compassion for Defendants

Mar 21, 2013

By Terrie Best San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator San Diego, CA – Dennis Little, an arthritis sufferer and his wife Deborah Little, who has lived with HIV/AIDS for twenty years and is battling cancer, were in court today – for what was to be a preliminary examination – along with their attorneys Lance Rogers,...

After Defeats in Both Superior Court and Appellate Court, San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis Will Prosecute Medical Marijuana Patient Jovan Jackson Again

After Defeats in Both Superior Court and Appellate Court, San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis Will Prosecute Medical Marijuana Patient Jovan Jackson Again

Mar 20, 2013

By Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access Court Support Coordinator San Diego, CA – Jovan Jackson a medical cannabis patient, Navy veteran, and former operator of Answerdam, a medical marijuana collective in San Diego, was in court yesterday to learn his prosecutorial fate after the Fourth District Court of Appeals issued an order to the...

Terminally Ill, Senior Citizen, Medical Marijuana Patients Endure Raid and Felony Charges in Continuation of San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis’ Reign of Terror on the Ill and Infirm

By Terrie Best – Court Support Coordinator, San Diego Americans for Safe Access San Diego, CA – Dennis and Deborah Little are a retired couple dealing with life-threatening illnesses who became medical cannabis patients and sought cover under California’s voter approved Proposition 215, the ballot measure which allowed ill patients to use medical...

San Diego DA Dumanis’ Office Drops Medical Marijuana Charges after Beleaguered Defendants Call Prosecutors’ Last Bluff

By Terrie Best – Court Support Coordinator, San Diego Americans for Safe Access February 4, 2013 San Diego, CA – San Diego District Attorney (DA) Bonnie Dumanis made the prosecutorial procedure the punishment today by dragging to the brink of trial Clint Guidry and Cameron Mitchell who committed no other crime but to merely possess medical cannabis for...

Four Ballot Initiatives Fail to Secure the Rights of Medical Marijuana Dispensaries to Exist in Four San Diego Cities While a Landmark California Appellate Court Decision Defines Dispensaries as Legal

By: Terrie Best – San Diego Americans for Safe Access San Diego CA – Hidden in the clouds of vapor in some reporter’s desk is a story whose magnitude was almost missed in the hubbub of the 2012 presidential election. On October 24th, 2012, the Fourth District Court of Appeals in San Diego overturned a medical marijuana dispensary operator’s...

Judge Cancels Oral Arguments in Case involving Briana Bilbray, Dispensaries Seeking Injunction to Stop Federal Crackdown

Judge Cancels Oral Arguments in Case involving Briana Bilbray, Dispensaries Seeking Injunction to Stop Federal Crackdown

Feb 29, 2012

By: Eugene Davidovich SAN DIEGO – In October of last year several U.S. Attorneys from the Department of Justice (DOJ) held a press conference in Sacramento announcing a new Federal crackdown on medical marijuana patients and providers across California. Days after the announcement, hundreds of letters from the DOJ were sent to landlords renting commercial...

Oceanside City Attorney Loses Temporary Restraining Order; North County Collective Allowed to Stay Open

Oceanside City Attorney Loses Temporary Restraining Order; North County Collective Allowed to Stay Open

Jul 27, 2011

By: Eugene Davidovich, San Diego Americans for Safe Access, Posted July 27, 2011, 11:29am VISTA, CA – On Wednesday, July 27, 2011 in a courtroom filled with supporters of safe access, Judge Maas, denied the City of Oceanside’s attempt to obtain a temporary restraining order to shut down North County Collective (NCC), a legal medical marijuana dispensary...

Jovan Jackson to Remain Free on Bail While ASA Appeals His Case

By: Eugene Davidovich, San Diego Americans for Safe Access Advocates help keep a man unjustly convicted free while his case is appealed by their Chief Counsel Joe Elford. SAN DIEGO – Jovan Jackson a medical marijuana patient, Navy Veteran, and former operator of Answerdam a medical marijuana collective in San Diego, was convicted on September 28th, 2010...

San Diego Dispensary Operator Sentenced, Advocates Vow to Appeal

San Diego Dispensary Operator Sentenced, Advocates Vow to Appeal

Dec 18, 2010

By: Kris Hermes, Americans for Safe Access On Wednesday, San Diego Superior Court Judge Howard H. Shore told a crowded courtroom of patient advocates: “Medical marijuana is a scam.” During his vitriolic rants, Judge Shore found time to sentence Jovan Jackson, a dispensary operator who was recently convicted after being denied a defense at trial. Judge Shore...

Safe Access Railroaded by DA Dumanis in San Diego

By: Eugene Davidovich SAN DIEGO – On Tuesday, September 28, 2010 in the second medical marijuana trial of Jovan Jackson, San Diego District Attorney (DA) Bonnie Dumanis, through her Deputy DA Chris Lindberg, was successful in manipulating the law as it is written to the point where all jurors in the Jackson case had no choice but to return a guilty verdict. At...

BREAKING NEWS: Update on Jury Deliberations

This morning the jury in Jovan Jackson’s second medical marijuana trial began their first full day of deliberations. With the day only being half way over, several interesting issues have already occurred during deliberations today. First, we found out that one of the Jurors had come down with the flu. Juror #4 could no longer continue deliberations and...

Opening Statements Begin, Security Measures Upgraded at Jackson Medical Marijuana Trial

By: Eugene Davidovich SAN DIEGO – If you thought intimidation couldn’t get any worse in the San Diego State Courts, think again. This morning Department 15 as per the new demands of the San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, was outfitted with additional security measures. While walking up to the courtroom this morning a congregation of bailiffs...

Protest Unfair Trial of Jovan Jackson

Protest Unfair Trial of Jovan Jackson

Sep 16, 2010

WHAT: Protest against the Unfair Trial of Jovan Jackson WHEN: 8:30 – 9:30am Friday, September 17th 2010 WHERE: 220 W Broadway, San Diego CA 92101 SAN DIEGO – Mr. Jackson is facing a second trial, less than a year after being acquitted by a jury of all medical marijuana related charges just a few months ago. In State court where medical marijuana is...

Second Medical Marijuana Trial – Jovan Jackson

Second Medical Marijuana Trial – Jovan Jackson

Aug 10, 2010

San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis has maintained for years that all dispensaries are illegal, that sales or monetary reimbursement for cannabis is not legal under any circumstances, and that Proposition 215 is not a law that her office respects or recognizes. In fact, Ms. Dumanis has launched and waged what she calls a “Fierce Fight” against...

Collateral Estoppel Motion Denied in Jovan Jackson Case

Collateral Estoppel Motion Denied in Jovan Jackson Case

Jun 25, 2010

Today in San Diego Superior Court, the Honorable Judge Shore in front of at least a dozen of Mr. Jackson’s supporters, considered a motion to dismiss the case against Jovan Jackson based on the doctrine of “Collateral Estoppel.” Judge Shore denied the motion and based on the fact that the second trial stems from events on a different...