A federal court rethinks the practice of punishing drug use as murder brown wooden chess piece on brown book
A woman who bought heroin with her sister and a friend, who suffered a fatal overdose on the drug later that night, is not a murderer, according to the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. That was the June 1 ruling in
USA v. Semler, a case that may not set binding precedent, but does send a signal to the prosecutors and the judiciary that the federal courts do not want to see a federal law aimed at so-called drug kingpins applied to mere drug users.
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A federal appellate court has vacated the conviction of a Montgomery County woman whose friend overdosed and died while they were using heroin together, saying the law under which she was convicted originally designed to target narcotics dealers should not apply in cases where drugs are jointly acquired and used together. Emma Semler, 26, of Collegeville, was sentenced to 21 years in .