Hello, my name is Chris Morales I’m a criminal defense attorney here in San Francisco,California. I want to talk today about the difference in prosecution for marijuana grow houses.The difference in Federal and State Court. In Federal Court usually the U.S. attorneys and the DA are only interested in prosecuting marijuana grow houses when there is a lot of plants maybe 1,000 or more. Those are the type of cases they are interested in. They are also interested in prosecuting those type of cases if they believe the grower is
part of a larger cartel or part of a larger organization. Then they will go after those types of cases, but mainly marijuana grow houses are prosecuted by the state government, by a local prosecutor and a lot of times those cases involve stealing electricity.So a marijuana grower will go into a house and grow plants and then plug into the local electricity and not pay for it. I seen some cases where the bill is something like 70,000 dollars after 6 months and so that is even a bigger issue then actually growing several hundred plants – is the stealing
of electricity. So, there is a big difference between the Federal and State Prosecution the penalties in Federal Court is much more severe than in State Court. If you are prosecuted and convicted in Federal Court there is a mandatory of minimum of 5 years in Federal prison. So in State Court if you are prosecuted and convicted of having marijuana grow house depending on the number of plants you are looking at a jail sentence of 90 to 120 days something along those lines.So those are some big differences.
If you have a marijuana grow case please call my office we can discuss it with you and help you out. My phone number is (415) 552-1215. Good Luck
Prosecution for Growing Marijuana in State & Federal Court
Criminal Defense Attorney – Christopher Morales
Practice Area: The San Francisco Bay Area, California
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