02-16-2005, 12:13 PM
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they are different in every state
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no, but saying I'm going to sell drugs isn't a crime and that isn't what he was convicted of. It was the steps he took to do so. It was a felony and I don't know whether the same laws apply in Florida, each state is different. However, it is likely.
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In order to know whether what they were doing was a felony, we would need to know the criteria for determining it. For example, the drug seller was calling and actively attempting to sell. The fact that he had no drugs on him may not matter in Mass, but maybe it does in Florida. If you are caught with a bundle of drugs, you can be convicted of intent to sell. But intent to purchase laws may be drastically different. |
although Florida is among the most stringent drug and search/seizure laws in the country due to the I95 corridor for trafficking.
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JMS gets another English lesson:
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there is no "mostly unique;" thats like saying "sometimes always," its an oxymoron - its either one or the other.
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By the mid-19th century unique had developed a wider meaning, “not typical, unusual,” and it is in this wider sense that it is compared. The comparison of so-called absolutes in senses that are not absolute is standard in all varieties of speech and writing.
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