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http://www.gazette.com/articles/jury-140056-verdict-guilty.html
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An El Paso County jury on Monday acquitted a corporate trainer turned-medical marijuana grower on drug cultivation charges, ending a weeklong trial that brought daily demonstrations by medical marijuana advocates.
Elisa Kappelmann, 52, embraced attorney Rob Corry of Denver after the jury's verdict was read in court. Her supporters rocked in their seats, shouted "thank you" to the departing jurors and in some cases wept.
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Kappelmann, who left her job at Hewlett Packard in Colorado Springs to open a medical marijuana dispensary, had faced up to 12 years in prison on two felonies in connection with a May 2010 raid on a Colorado Springs warehouse where she leased an 800-square-foot suite as a temporary grow house.
Police said Kappelmann and her business partner were growing 99 marijuana plants without necessary documentation from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, which maintains a medical marijuana registry. Authorities also seized just more than a pound of dried marijuana and some marijuana cigarettes.
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Jury nullification, indeed. Especially since this administration lacks the spine to do the peoples'
villager
Jun 2012
#3
MMJ was perking up rentals of empty storefronts in my working class L.A. neighborhood, too
villager
Jun 2012
#44
Back in the 70's it was such a taboo about its effectiveness with cancer treatment
MagickMuffin
Jun 2012
#39
little-known fact: big corporations were against prohibition, and had a big role in ending it.
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#36
"police used a $7 million Department of Homeland Security surveillance plane"
Warren DeMontague
Jun 2012
#13
I live in El Paso Country. This is where Colorado Springs is. The Christian Mecca of the USA.
joshcryer
Jun 2012
#32
Their influence is dwindling, imo. There are a lot of new age churches here as well as...
joshcryer
Jun 2012
#40