Politics and Drugs: An Embarrassing Mix

Posted on: January 22, 2009 at 7:26 a.m.

Drug offensesare serious, embarrassing and can effect you for the rest of your life. Los Angeles drug offense lawyers represent people everyday, in every walk of life, who have been hammered by the law for succumbing to their own addictions. Los Angeles drug offense lawyers also know that fighting their client means assisting them with their image and life after the trial, as well as all the issues before the trial begins.

For high-profile individuals, politicians, athletes, celebrities and so forth, drug offenses can create not only legal problems, but credibility issues. The list of national politicians who have faced drug charges is endless; Mayor Marian Barry of Washington, D.C. was one of the most famous cases, having been caught in a Federal drug sting on camera while smoking crack.

Unfortunately, politicians in southern California are no different than the rest of the country. Recently, in San BernardinoCounty, Assessor Bill Postmus, who said publicly that he had battled but overcome drug addiction, was arrested Thursday on charges that include felony possession of methamphetamine. A felony drug possession conviction can bring at least one year in jail as well as fines in excess of $1,000.

About 50 agents from the county district attorney's office, armed with 10 search warrants, raided locations in San Bernardino, Highland, Apple Valley, Victorville and Rancho Santa Margarita in Orange County. When they entered Postmus' Rancho Cucamonga home, they found methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia, officials said. Postmus was arrested and released on $11,450 bail.

Felony drug charges count as strikes under California's "Three Strikes Laws." Under the Three Strikes Law, if you are charged with three serious felonies, you could face upwards of 25 years in prison. For more information on felony drug charges, go to www.kelawyers.com.

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