From: johnturmel@gmail.com   
      
   TURMEL: Tim McConnell Pot Charges withdrawn, Discharge on rifle   
      
   JCT: Tim McConnell had rented out the family homestead to be   
   used by a DG for two patients whose MMAR permits had been   
   extended by Allard. But after a while with no respite, the   
   DG was burned out. Remember that one of our constitutional   
   torts was that no help was allowed to the patient or the DG.   
   But Judge Manson had not allowed any changes to an MMAR   
   permit, if the DG dies or leaves, the patient is screwed.   
      
   Tim had his own legal garden and offered to help the DG do   
   the work so the patients would not lose their permits.   
      
   Then he got busted tending the garden and charged with   
   Production and Possession for the Purpose of Trafficking.   
      
   He had originally had Michel Swanston, the same lawyer as   
   Luc Paquette and a bunch from the Projet Nouage conspiracy   
   bust who got them to pleaded guilty for big money. Luc   
   dropped him and ended up with a discharge and no criminal   
   record for free. Har har har   
      
   So Tim filed my Quash Motion which got put off to the trial   
   judge below. He filed 3 extraordinary motions in Superior   
   Court, pretty unique, to have his election to Superior Court   
   for jury trial and a judge granted his motion.   
      
   So then the Crown withdrew the Production charge to take   
   away his right to a jury trial and stayed below with only   
   the Possession for the Purpose of Trafficking Charge.   
      
   I really thought that could be beaten. How could he be   
   trafficking when the pot was destined for the DG to be sent   
   to the patients? Tim would have had to steal their pot to   
   traffick it to someone else, right? So they should have   
   charged him with illegally possessing the pot but not for   
   the purpose of trafficking when it was for the purpose of   
   helping the lawful Designated Grower!   
      
   Then Tim filed the new "Mernagh Plus Why" Charter motion on   
   the Gatineau and Montreal Crown Attorneys offices. With   
   testimony that doctors were refusing for non-medical   
   reasons, we also had a representative from a Montreal   
   referral clinic who was going to testify that they had   
   helped over 10,000 patients get permits when their Quebec   
   doctors refused to participate!   
      
   But Tuesday morning Oct 9 of his trial, a new male Crown   
   asked to speak to Tim and said he had an offer he doubted   
   Tim could refuse. He was right.   
      
   Withdrawal of the pot charge if he pleaded guilty to unsafe   
   storage of his dad's rifle and would recommend a discharge   
   on that if he made a $500 contribution to charity. So no   
   Criminal Record. An offer he could not refuse.   
      
   So instead of possibly time in jail if Swanston had pleaded   
   him guilty, his putting up a fight left him with no criminal   
   record. The second of Swanston's clients I got off that he   
   would not have gotten off. Har har har har har har.   
      
   So Tim's a happy camper and the DG may even be willing to   
   start up for the patients again after a couple of years of   
   rest. The only people harmed were the patients.   
      
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