Broadcom tech billionaire Henry Nicholas arrested in Las Vegas on suspicion of drug trafficking

[joshcryer]

6. Interestingly, if this was his first offense...

...calling the police / ambulance on the girlfriend grants you immunity in a drug case. It's meant to protect people from being afraid to call the police / ambulance for a drug overdose.

Many states have an immunity law for this now a days, which is sad, because it says that our opoid epidemic is so bad we need a law protecting people behaving illegally from letting people die for fear of jail: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-453C.html

The law doesn't explicitly state that it doesn't apply to second offenses but because it gives the courts discretion they will probably prosecute here (though he has enough money to probably get off on the case anyway, ironically because his girlfriend overdosed).