{"id":12572,"date":"2011-07-07T16:31:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T20:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=12572"},"modified":"2011-07-07T16:31:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T20:31:47","slug":"willie-nelson-jail-time-marijuana-bust-shocking-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=12572","title":{"rendered":"Willie Nelson JAIL TIME: MARIJUANA BUST SHOCKING DETAILS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=12572\" href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=12572\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12573\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Willie Nelson header (Copy)\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Willie-Nelson-header-Copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>By \u201cBad\u201d Brad Berkwitt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A west Texas judge rejected legendary country singer Willie Nelson&#8217;s plea bargain that would have resolved his marijuana possession case with a fine.<\/p>\n<p>Hudspeth County Judge Becky Dean-Walker told The Associated Press Wednesday that she rejected prosecutor Kit Bramblett&#8217;s suggestion that Nelson plead guilty and pay a $500 fine for possession of drug paraphernalia, a misdemeanor not punishable with jail time.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Dean-Walker said, &#8220;It&#8217;s not right simply because he doesn&#8217;t do that for anybody else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The judge wants Nelson charged with the misdemeanor of possession of marijuana, which could mean up to one year in jail.<\/p>\n<p>This past November at a Border Patrol checkpoint an agent searched Nelson&#8217;s tour bus and found marijuana. Nelson was arrested and later released on bail.<\/p>\n<p>This case brings up the old argument that Pot should be legalized and taxed because it is no more dangerous than alcohol or nicotine.<\/p>\n<p>RSR will bring you up to date details as they come in&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"polls-83\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_83\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_83_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"e1cce1c55d\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"83\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Do you think Marijuana should be legalized and taxed?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-83-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-243\" name=\"poll_83\" value=\"243\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-243\">Yes<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-244\" name=\"poll_83\" value=\"244\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-244\">No<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(83);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(83); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-83-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By \u201cBad\u201d Brad Berkwitt A west Texas judge rejected legendary country singer Willie Nelson&#8217;s plea bargain that would have resolved his marijuana possession case with a fine. Hudspeth County Judge Becky Dean-Walker told The Associated Press Wednesday that she rejected prosecutor Kit Bramblett&#8217;s suggestion that Nelson plead guilty and pay a $500 fine for possession [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2016,367,4006,4005,4007,4004,4003],"class_list":["post-12572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-country","tag-jail","tag-legal","tag-mj","tag-on-the-road-again","tag-pot","tag-willie-nelson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12572"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}