A prosecutor concedes he was giving a Juneau woman the “deal of a lifetime” when she was sentenced for a misdemeanor instead of a felony after a pot-grow operation was found in her home.
Juneau District Attorney James Scott calls the circumstances surrounding the prosecution of Bonnie E. Odom as a “one-off.”
He said he agreed to a misdemeanor because she didn’t have a criminal record and police only found out about the 55 plants because of an unrelated incident that brought police to her home.
The Juneau Empire reports (http://is.gd/0UsTjj) that Alaska law states any more than 25 plants is considered a felony.
Her lawyer says she uses the marijuana for medical purposes. She received a year of probation instead of jail time.
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Information from: Juneau (Alaska) Empire, http://www.juneauempire.com