Meth in a Sock

BOISE, Idaho – An Idaho court improperly rejected a man’s guilty plea to drug possession after determining that he may have a “necessity defense,” an appeals court ruled. The man said he put meth in a sock after finding it on the street to keep it away from children. 

A court cannot reject a guilty plea based on its own assessment of a possible necessity defense.

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