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Post by tylerempire on Jun 3, 2011 11:55:36 GMT -5
I'm sure this has been addressed before, but I couldn't find the specific information I needed. If you could help, it'd be very appreciated.
If I am not personally bringing any items of concern with me to the festival, but others in the same vehicle may be doing just that, could at any point, any of us be turned away from the festival?
By this I mean, is the whole car busted if one person has something with them?
What would the highway police do in that situation?
What would the Bonnaroo security do in that situation?
Can anyone at any point NOT allow people to enter the gates for this sort of reason?
If they find anything they will confiscate it and issue citations. At which point you're free to go and enjoy the festival. If someone in your vehicle gets caught in possesion they would get the citation. If its found in the vehicle and no one claims it, I think the possession charges automatically fall on the owner of the vehicle.
Post by tylerempire on Jun 3, 2011 12:04:51 GMT -5
Ok, that's what I figured. I just don't want to end up being somehow unable to attend the festival, if someone in my vehicle happened to have a small amount of an herbal medicine...
Which may not even be the case. I just figured I'd ask to find out, just to be prepared if that did actually happen for some reason.
I read the other thread and it was mostly about the searches at the gate.
The only thing I would be concerned with is being pulled over driving down the highway such as the infamous TN border line.
If you get caught on the highway, do they usually issue you a citation? Just wondering what the chances are for someone to actually go to jail and miss roo...that would be a bigger bummer than paying over $1k in fines.
If you get caught on the highway, do they usually issue you a citation? Just wondering what the chances are for someone to actually go to jail and miss roo...that would be a bigger bummer than paying over $1k in fines.
Outside the festival grounds you're fucked the law applies like it normally would
I read the other thread and it was mostly about the searches at the gate.
The only thing I would be concerned with is being pulled over driving down the highway such as the infamous TN border line.
If you get caught on the highway, do they usually issue you a citation? Just wondering what the chances are for someone to actually go to jail and miss roo...that would be a bigger bummer than paying over $1k in fines.
I'm not from TN, but here's NORML's summation of their corn laws.
Possession Any Amount misdemeanor 1 year $2,500 First convictions for any misdemeanor has a mandatory minimum fine of $250. Second convictions $500, and subsequent convictions, $1,000. Paraphernalia possession misdemeanor 1 year $2,500 Paraphernalia sale felony 1 - 6 years $3,000 Details
Possession, delivery or sale of one-half ounce or less is punishable by up to one year in jail and a fine up to $2,500.
For delivery or sale of amounts over one-half ounce the penalty increases to 1 - 6 years in prison and a fine up to $5,000. Delivery or sale of 10 pounds or more is punishable by 2 - 12 years in prison and a fine up to $5,000. For amounts of 70 pounds or more, the penalty increases to 8 - 30 years in prison and a fine up to $200,000. Delivery or sale of 300 pounds or more carries a penalty of 15 - 60 years in prison and a fine up to $500,000.
Any sale to a minor or any sale within 1,000 feet of a school increases the penalty classification one level.
Cultivation of 10 - 19 plants is punishable by 2 - 12 years in prison and a fine up to $50,000. For cultivation of 20 - 99 plants, the penalty increases to 3 - 15 years in prison and a fine up to $100,000. For 100 - 499 plants the penalty increases to 8 - 30 years in prison and a fine up to $200,000. Cultivation of 500 or more plants is punishable by 15 - 60 years in prison and a fine up to $500,000.
For all first convictions for misdemeanor drug offenses there is a mandatory minimum fine of $250. For second convictions the mandatory minimum increases to $500 and for subsequent convictions, it increases to $1,000. For all fist convictions of felony drug offenses there is a mandatory minimum fine of $2,000, increasing to $3,000 for second convictions and to $5,000 for any subsequent convictions.
The use or possession of paraphernalia is punishable by up to one year in jail and a fine up to $2,500. Sale of paraphernalia carries a penalty of 1 - 6 years in prison and a fine up to $3,000.
You're also subject at the whim of the judge to being sentenced to complete a course of substance abuse treatment. In the county where I live, that means something like 60 days of mandatory AA or NA meetings.
The issue for owner/operator of the motor vehicle is whether you have dominion and control over the area where substance is found. If it is on the floor as if recently and quickly discarded and in plain view it probably is attributed to nearest occupant . If it is under the seat it could go against the nearest occupant and the owner/operator. These are usually fact sensitive. But the true issue is not whether you win in court but whether you miss Roo because someone else is so selfish that they couldn't wait to cop at the farm. Why take the risk?