This month’s bomb threat at the Chelan County Courthouse has prompted county commissioners to take action. Chelan County Commissioner, Kevin Overbay, says
PART ONE
Hello and welcome to Common Sense, I’m Dominick Bonny and today we’re exploring the bombshell legal decision in Washington state v. Blake which declared unconstitutional Washington’s strict liability drug possession statute, which criminalized unintentional, unknowing possession of controlled substances without a prescription.
It’s a case that presents itself almost like the plot of a much grittier, darker version of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, except in this film the pants have meth in them and no one knows how it got there. The case arose after a woman was arrested and charged with possession of drugs after being caught wearing a pair of pants a friend had loaned her that contained a small bag of methamphetamine in the coin pocket.