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Green_T


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Needle Exchange Activists Can't Use a Health Defense [CA]
#13400050 - 10/28/10 10:35 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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These people should be given a medal, not a jail sentence...
California: Needle Exchange Activists Can't Use a Health Defense October 27, 2010 - The Body
A Stanislaus County judge will not allow two activists to cite public health issues when they stand trial in March for operating an unauthorized syringe-exchange program (SEP). Advertisement
In April 2009, undercover officers said they caught Kristy Tribuzio and Brian Robinson handing out clean syringes and collecting dirty ones in a south Modesto park. Both were charged with possessing drug paraphernalia, a misdemeanor carrying up to a year in jail.
Monday's ruling was the second time Superior Court Judge Ricardo Córdoba turned down the defendants' efforts to cite medical necessity in their defense to jurors. "[There] is a legislative solution to this issue," he said, referring to bills introduced in the state Legislature.
In 2008, the Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors rejected a proposal for an authorized SEP, which had been recommended by a civil grand jury and health experts. The grand jury reported that year that the county was on track to record 620 new hepatitis C cases, up from 519 in 2007. Opponents, including county District Attorney Birgit Fladager and Sheriff Adam Christianson, said an SEP would enable addiction.
Defense attorney Rubén Villalobos maintains that his clients were fighting the spread of hepatitis C and HIV through needle sharing among injection drug users.
Of the 40 SEPs in California, just three are in the Central Valley, according to the state Department of Public Health.
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anarchOi
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Re: Needle Exchange Activists Can't Use a Health Defense [CA] [Re: Green_T]
#13400696 - 10/28/10 12:45 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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So did I read that right? He acknowledges there is a problem with the law and that they have a case but just refuses because he doesn't think his court is the right place?
so drop the fucking charges...
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Mickalopagus
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Re: Needle Exchange Activists Can't Use a Health Defense [CA] [Re: anarchOi]
#13401239 - 10/28/10 02:19 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Stanislaus is one of the most backwards hick, meth ridden counties in CA... this is NO surprise to me... most judges have their heads far far up their asses to try and consider the reality of these kinds of situations.
that couple does deserve a medal...
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Re: Needle Exchange Activists Can't Use a Health Defense [CA] [Re: Mickalopagus]
#13401296 - 10/28/10 02:29 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Heads up their asses indeed. Preventing the spread of Hep. C and AIDS isn't a public health issue?
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usefulidiot13
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Re: Needle Exchange Activists Can't Use a Health Defense [CA] [Re: Green_T]
#13401912 - 10/28/10 04:26 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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YOU GUYS ARE ALL ENABLERS!!!!
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usefulidiot13
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Re: Needle Exchange Activists Can't Use a Health Defense [CA] [Re: usefulidiot13]
#13401915 - 10/28/10 04:26 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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if you give a junkie a needle and they go OD you should be charged with murder.
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Re: Needle Exchange Activists Can't Use a Health Defense [CA] [Re: usefulidiot13]
#13402691 - 10/28/10 06:42 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
usefulidiot13 said: if you give a junkie a needle and they go OD you should be charged with murder.
whatever you say officer
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Mickalopagus
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Re: Needle Exchange Activists Can't Use a Health Defense [CA] [Re: usefulidiot13]
#13404553 - 10/29/10 02:03 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
usefulidiot13 said: if you give a junkie a needle and they go OD you should be charged with murder.
the junkie already had a needle... you simply gave them a clean one in exchange for their shitty one.
this isnt the FREE NEEDLES FOR JUNKIES program, its an exchange program to limit the spread of life threatening diseases.
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