HELENA, Mont. (AP) - A Montana Supreme Court justice added his own legal spin to a long-established rule of the drug trade in rejecting a federal inmate’s appeal of a state drug possession charge.
Bruce Anthony Glass argued the state charge amounted to double jeopardy because possession was part of the federal conspiracy to distribute charge for which he is serving nearly 12 years in prison.
The justices ruled Tuesday that because Glass had kept some of the methamphetamine for his own use, he had two separate criminal purposes for having the drugs. The ruling upheld a lower court decision that allowed the state to file the possession charge.
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Justice Jeremiah Shea closed the opinion with: “Don’t get high on your own supply, ’cause double jeopardy don’t apply.”
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