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...laws have ameliorated the influence of drugs at high schools across the country. Since it’s hard to prove in a court of law that someone is selling drugs to minor, however, the law uses 1,000-foot rule as a kind of approximation. This would be fine if it allowed prosecutorial or judicial discretion for cases that defy reason. As written, however, the law provides no such exception, a fact that peeves prosecutors and judges—who focus on its racially disparate impact—as much as Harvard students. The state court?...
...blog that turned my attractiveness into a matter of public debate. Yet despite multiple qualms last Friday night, I somehow found myself wearing nothing but sneakers among equally unclothed peers. As the chanting began, I took a deep breath and started to reassure myself that I looked fine...
...businessman has to cope with success, not failure. And there's no denying the dramatic oomph of the climactic courtroom scene, with Gurukant defending himself and the class he stands for. Still, it doesn't seem like a natural weave for Mani Ratnam. This Guru is more like a fine polyester...
...April of 2005, Jeremy Robbins was arrested attempting to traffic two tons of marijuana from Arizona to East Tennessee. Indicted on federal drug conspiracy charges, Robbins was soon assessed a $1.1 million fine from Tennessee's Department of Revenue. The reason: failure to comply with the state's Unauthorized Substances Tax, which requires anyone in possession of a certain quantity of contraband - in the case of marijuana, more than 42.5 grams - to buy a tax stamp from the state government and affix it on the drug...
...that reason, a Davidson County chancellor last summer ruled the tax unconstitutional, and stopped the state from collecting Robbins' $1.1 million. But the Department of Revenue, confident the ruling will be overturned on appeal, is continuing with the assessments. Says Deputy Commissioner Reagan Farr, "It's fine to have a criminal and a regulatory scheme running in tandem. We've made sure our statute is purely regulatory, not punitive." But no matter how you define it, the bottom line for Tennessee is that crime pays...