A 19-year-old could serve a life sentence in prison because he made pot brownies with hash oil instead of solid marijuana.
Texas
teen Jacob Lavoro may be charged with a first degree felony because he
decided to use hash oil in a brownie recipe. The state is permitted to
use the entire weight of the brownies including the butter, milk, sugar
and cocoa to calculate the weight of the drugs.
Round
Rock, Texas officials confiscated 1.5 pounds of brownies and Lavoro,
who would have been charged with a misdemeanor had he used solid weed
instead of hash oil, could serve anywhere from 5 years to life in
prison.
Lavoro's lawyer Jack Holmes told KUTV.com
that Lavoro's punishment is too harsh and is 'higher than the punishment
range for sexual assault or aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
It's kind of crazy.'
'I’ve
been doing this 22 years as a lawyer and I've got 10 years as a police
officer and I’ve never seen anything like this before,' he said.
'They’ve weighed baked goods in this case. It ought to be a misdemeanor.'
Jacob's
father Joe Lavoro told reporters that his son did something illegal and
should absolutely be punished but that his punishment should equal the
crime.
"Five years
to life? I'm sorry, I'm a law abiding citizen. I'm a conservative. I
love my country. I'm a Vietnam veteran, but I'll be damned ... this is
wrong, this is damn wrong!' he told KEYE-TV.
'If
[Jacob] did something wrong he should be punished but to the extent
that makes sense. This is illogical. I'm really upset, and I'm
frightened, I'm frightened for my son.'
Jacob, a former high school football player has an entirely clean record prior to his current charge.
Homes
pointed out to reporters that Lavoro is in the same county that
'withheld evidence in the Morton case, where a man spent 25 years in
prison and he was completely innocent ... so you have to keep that in
mind too.'
Holmes says he will fight for Jacob to get a more lenient sentence.
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