Okay, somebody from NY please explain to me criminal possession in the 7th degree.
Here's how I picture possession in the 7th degree: A person in Idaho thinks about someone in NY who knows someone who might know someone who has an LSD tab.
Am I close?
It's just your basic misdemeanor possession, without any specific quantity involved, so there's something to plead down to when avoiding a felony conviction.
ReplyDeleteBecause the Rockefeller Law was all quantity driven, we have lots of possession counts based on how much narcotics one possesses, from no quantity (7th) to 8 ounces, which used to be 4 before the law was reformed, which is an A-1 felony, just like our old buddy murder.
So, it's a guilty plea to possessing 0 grams?
ReplyDeleteThere would have to be some amount of drugs, but it would not have a threshhold quantity. So zero, no, but an iota, yes. More to the point, it filled the gap of CPCS when they can't prove weight and offers a misdemeanor to plead down from minor felony weight.
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