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Re:How a Single Oxycontin Pill Nearly Ruined One Man's Life by mikecane on Monday August 06, 2012 @03:43PM (#4346888)
>>>Carrying around one of the most famously illegal prescription narcotics

Rush Limbaugh did much, much worse and how has he suffered? This guy had one freaking pill and that he was dumb and agreed to let the cops search him -- as everyday Americans submit to even worse searches by TSA -- is justification for what he went through?

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Re:How a Single Oxycontin Pill Nearly Ruined One Man's Life by tptacek on Monday August 06, 2012 @04:07PM (#4347008)
Rush Limbaugh (who, just to be clear, I find odious in the extreme) was prosecuted, plead not guilty, and had his charges dropped only after paying $30,000 and agreeing to 18 months of addiction therapy.

The person in this story was prosecuted, plead guilty, and had his record expunged after agreeing to 12 months of addiction therapy.

No amount of prosecutorial discretion was ever going to equalize outcomes between a young Merrill broker in Florida and Rush Limbaugh, one of the richest blowhards in right wing media.

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Re:How a Single Oxycontin Pill Nearly Ruined One Man's Life by mikecane on Monday August 06, 2012 @07:52PM (#4347926)
>>>and had his record expunged after agreeing to 12 months of addiction therapy

And yet he cannot get it expunged from all the companies that got that info from the state. It will forever haunt him. For One. Freakin. Pill.

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Re:How a Single Oxycontin Pill Nearly Ruined One Man's Life by tptacek on Monday August 06, 2012 @09:44PM (#4348251)
Orthogonal and legitimate issue.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/us/17expunge.html?pagewant...

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