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Los Angeles Drug Crime Lawyer

Many of our firm's cases involve the defense of those accused of possessing or dealing in illegal drugs. If you are convicted of a drug crime in the state of California, you may face anything from probation and a fine to life in prison. If this is your first offense and there is no violence, you may be eligible for alternative sentencing by the courts.

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Manufacturing, (labs) possession of drug precursors, and transportation or other trafficking charges are very serious, and can result in lengthy prison sentences if your constitutional rights are not protected. Government agents have sometimes been known to shade the truth or lie to get results in narcotics cases. Sometimes aggressive defense tactics must be used to reveal such conduct, or attack a search warrant. Often there is only one viable defense to an accusation of drug possession or trafficking - a motion to suppress evidence, based on the 4th Amendment, arguing that the search that led to the discovery of the drugs was illegal.

In California, Proposition 36 offers an alternative to incarceration for non-violent first time drug offenders. Instead of prison time, you will be placed on probation and sentenced to a drug rehabilitation facility for a year and follow-up care for an additional period of 6 months. Drug Diversion programs, commonly called "1000 PC" for the penal code section that defines the law, may be available to first offenders. This results in the eventual dismissal of charges after an education program, and does not result in a criminal conviction.

For more information about Drug Crimes, click one of the links below:

• Drug Sales & Manufacturing
• Drug Possession
  
  
  

• Preserve jail and prison cells for serious and violent offenders.
• Enhance public safety by reducing drug-related crime.
• Improve public health by reducing drug abuse through proven and effective treatment strategies.

• The Act also requires that participating treatment programs be licensed or certified, with certain exceptions.
• Use of Proposition 36 funds for drug testing is specifically prohibited by the Act, but special funding for drug testing was added by Senate Bill 223 (Burton), Chapter 721, Statutes of 2001 (approved October 2001).