http://www.austindailyherald.com/2011/09/26/man-with-200-pounds-of-pot-gets-probation/
Stultz,Sarah."Man with 200 punds of pot gets probation."austindailyhearld.com.26.Sept.2011.Web.29.Sept.2011.
According to Sarah Stultz of the Austin Daily Herald ,a 34-year-old Kentucky man found with more than 200 pounds of marijuana on Interstate 35 last October was sentenced in Freeborn County District Court to five years probation and a $3,000 fine. That late October night, Shannon O. Gonzalez was stopped by a tropper and the contents of his car was searched by a drug dog finding 222 pounds of marijuana. Normally with that much of an controlled substance, the accuser would do jail time. Unforuntally in this case, an earlier court hearing showed that the judge may not find the expansion of the scope of the search to be within constitutional limits. This case got fifth-degree drug possession, which was down from an initial charge of first-degree possession. Since this was a newspaper article, the Stultz remianed un-biased giving the local area readers the facts of the case.
I think that this is an interesting case, although I don't know if more reaserch could be done. It just shows how messed up some court cases can be, and how one guy got off lucky.
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