L.A. POT ACTIVIST INDICTED.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A federal grand jury has indicted INDICTED, practice. When a man is accused by a bill of indictment preferred by a grand jury, he is said to be indicted. marijuana marijuana or marihuana, drug obtained from the flowering tops, stems, and leaves of the hemp plant, Cannabis sativa (see hemp) or C. indica; the latter species can withstand colder climates. activist Todd McCormick for allegedly growing 4,116 pot plants in a rented Bel-Air mansion known as ``The Castle,'' prosecutors said Tuesday. The one-sentence indictment indictment (ĭndīt`mənt), in criminal law, formal written accusation naming specific persons and crimes. Persons suspected of crime may be rendered liable to trial by indictment, by presentment, or by information. also charges alleged accomplice accomplice: see accessory. Kirill N. Dyjine with two counts of growing marijuana. No indictments were returned against Renee Danielle Boje and Aleksandra Evanguedlidi, who were arrested during the same July 29 raid. Defense attorneys had requested in August that federal prosecutors postpone an indictment because McCormick was acting within the bounds of Proposition 215, a voter-approved state law that allows medical marijuana use. McCormick, 27, has had a rare cancer since childhood, he said. ``I said all along that all I did was manufacture,'' McCormick said Monday. ``They got a cancer patient growing his own pot, which is legal under 215.'' Proposition 215 became law Jan. 1. It gives Californians the right to cultivate, use and possess marijuana on a doctor's recommendation for a medical condition. Users who fit those conditions are exempted from state prosecution. But federal courts do not recognize the state law. McCormick has been out on $500,000 bail - posted by actor Woody Harrelson - since shortly after his arrest. He hopes he will not have to go back into custody following arraignment A criminal proceeding at which the defendant is officially called before a court of competent jurisdiction, informed of the offense charged in the complaint, information, indictment, or other charging document, and asked to enter a plea of guilty, not guilty, or as otherwise permitted . If convicted, he faces a minimum 10 years in prison. |
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