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Chavez Changes Attorneys;
Seeking More Aggressive Medical Marijuana Defense
August 26, 1998
From the Orange County Register
letters@link.freedom.com
http://www.ocregister.com/ UPDATE ON CHAVEZ
The wheels of justice are grinding slowly in Marvin Chavez’s case, in which he is
accused of 10 counts of selling marijuana, but they are grinding. On
Monday Judge Frank R. Fasel gave the founder of the Orange County Patients, Doctors,
Nurses Support Group (which has worked to help patients with recommendations from their
doctors get access to medical marijuana) permission to discharge his two attorneys, who
have represented him on a volunteer basis.
See
Orange
County Attorney Defending Marvin Chavez Showing Gratitude For Help To Son-in-Law Who Died
Of Cancer
The case has been "trailed" until Friday, when it will be determined
whether the Orange County Public Defenders office can represent Mr. Chavez or a private
attorney will be appointed.
Meanwhile, Mr. Chavez has recruited one attorney experienced in medical -marijuana
cases to serve as an adviser and is seeking others.
It is possible but probably unlikely that the involvement of new
attorneys will spur Judge Fasel to revisit his decision not to allow the defense to bring
up Prop. 215 (otherwise known as Health and Safety Code 11362.5), the November 1996
initiative where by voters decided that sick people with a doctor’s recommendation
should have access to marijuana for medical purposes.
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Second Judge
Rules Prop 215 Cannot Be Used In Chavez Defense – 2 Articles
If handled properly the Chavez case could furnish valuable
guidelines for implementing Prop. 215, which has been done only spottily in California as
a whole and not at all in Orange County. We’ll keep an eye on developments.
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Orange
County Register Editorial Suggests Ways Out of Medical Marijuana "Mishmash"
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