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    Tuesday
    Feb042003

    Jurors Who Convicted Marijuana Grower Seek New Trial

    This may be a first. A federal jury in San Francisco convicted Ed Rosenthal of charges of illegally cultivating marijuana, which carry a minimum five-year prison sentence. But the trial judge, Judge Charles Breyer, had not let the jurors hear that Rosenthal was growing the pot under a contract with the City of Oakland, or that it was being used to treat "medical marijuana" patients in accordance with California state law. The jurors now say they would never have convicted Rosenthal if they had known all the facts, and at least five of them are publicly protesting their own verdict. Read all about it here.

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