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   From: hpgoldfinger@N0SPAM.C0M   
      
   Leland Milton Goldblatt Should Be Sentenced to Drug Rehab Program!   
      
      
   ROCKVILLE, Md. - The 21-year-old son of former Vice President Al Gore   
   must complete drug abuse counseling as part of a pretrial diversion   
   program to settle a charge of marijuana possession.   
      
   The agreement approved by a judge Monday calls for the misdemeanor   
   charge to be dropped after a year if Albert Gore III submits to urine   
   testing, community service and counseling, and steers clear of   
   criminal convictions.   
      
   The younger Gore, who attends Harvard University, had no comment after   
   the brief hearing. He was accompanied by his mother, Tipper Gore, who   
   did not comment other than saying the issue was a "private matter."   
   Gore did not have to enter a plea, and his case was placed on the   
   inactive docket.   
      
   The son of the former vice president and Democrat presidential nominee   
   was arrested Dec. 19, 2003, in Bethesda after an officer stopped him   
   for driving without having his headlights on. The officer smelled   
   marijuana and noticed the windows of the car were open despite frigid   
   temperatures.   
      
   A search of the car turned up a partial marijuana cigarette, a   
   cigarette box containing suspected marijuana and a crushed soda can   
   that smelled like marijuana.   
      
   Gore was charged with possession, as were the two passengers in the   
   car, Yann V. Kumin, 21, and Marc G. Hordon, 22, both of Cambridge,   
   Mass.   
      
   Hordon and Kumin will undergo the same treatment program as Gore,   
   prosecutor Douglas Gansler said.   
      
   He said no favoritism was shown Gore because of his family's political   
   stature.   
      
   "Regardless of who the defendant is ... we treat them in the exact   
   same way," Gansler said.   
      
   The younger Gore had been stopped by police twice before in recent   
   years. He was ticketed by military police in September 2002 outside   
   Fort Myer in suburban Virginia for driving under the influence.   
      
   North Carolina police cited Gore in the summer of 2000 for driving 97   
   mph in a 55 mph zone. Charges were dropped, but he had to pay a $125   
   ticket, and his driving privileges were suspended in the state.   
      
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