From: johnturmel@gmail.com   
      
   JCT: "Howard Popham & Doris New file 3,000-plant Quash   
   Motions" was my first article about 69-year-old Howard   
   Popham and his companion Doris New who had a farm on the   
   north shore of the Ottawa River and were busted for a crop   
   of over 3,000 outdoor plants in 2016. DNA testing was done   
   in 2017 and charges were in 2018. So they faced a Mandatory   
   Minimum of 2 years for both these oldsters when it's over   
   after many years.   
      
   McConnell & Popham serve motions on same Crown as Paquette!!   
   was the second article:   
      
   On Oct 30 Howard Popham's trial is coming up a hundred kms   
   away in in Campbell's Bay Quebec. Today, he served his   
   constitutional motion on Crown Marie-Claude Daoust in   
   Gatineau! She does both towns.   
   And don't forget that she just dealt with Luc Paquette's   
   constitutional motion before Judge Laflamme in Gatineau last   
   month.   
   So the three Quebec cases that make it to constitutional   
   voir dire at the opening of the trial are all with the same   
   Crown!! What a fluke.   
      
   "Howard Popham dies before medpot charges, widow goes to   
   trial" was the third article. Sad to report Howard passed   
   away. Guess he really qualified for medical need.   
   Doris will now have to face the production charge on her   
   own.   
      
   "Doris New medPot charges to be withdrawn after Howard   
   Popham's death" was the fourth article:   
      
   The Crown called to tell Doris that they would be   
   withdrawing her charges on June 19. So some good news.   
      
   So why is she in the news today? The Surete du Quebec just   
   had a massive raid on her farm. Lots of cops, vans to cart   
   off the illegal substance, a big operation.   
      
   But when she showed them her exemption paperwork for all of   
   it, they could only try counting her plants. Everyone kept   
   coming up with different numbers but close enough to her   
   limit that they gave up and left.   
      
   But as they were leaving, they noticed that one her   
   neighbors had 8 plants growing. He has cancer. So they   
   busted him.   
      
   I've advised that he get his exemption as soon as he can so   
   that he can make the argument that if he could establish   
   medical need just a few days after the bust, odds are he had   
   the same medical need at the time of the bust. And Paragraph   
   170 of the Hitzig decision said that "those who establish   
   medical need are simply exempt!"   
      
   But the persecution of the little guys goes on. A guy with   
   cancer busted for 8 lousy plants. I bet it won't make the   
   news.   
      
   Gisele Pilon is coming up this Friday in Gatineau court   
   again. She was busted while waiting for her permit. So her   
   doctor established her medical need before the bust and only   
   slow permit processing caused her to be charged.   
      
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