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Front Page

Sep. 4, 2003

Sheriff Can't Do End-Around to Seize Pot

SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time, a federal judge has made clear that local sheriffs can't run to federal court to circumvent a state judge's order that they return seized medical marijuana to its owner.

A federal judge
has ruled that local sheriffs can't use the federal courts to circumvent a state judge's order to return seized weed to its owner. Page 3.
By Pamela A. MacLean
Daily Journal Staff Writer
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