Tag: Drug Offenses
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Can non-violent/white-collar crime make me ineligible for a green card to be a permanent resident?
Even a non-violent or white-collar type of crime can make somebody ineligible to get their green card for the first time and can prevent you from achieving legal residency, which you’ve probably been working hard for, for a long time. A lot of people make the assumption that, you know, the offence is not that…
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DOJ to Reduce Mandatory Sentences for Non-Violent, Drug Crimes
Will our Clients in Georgia Courts See a Change? Finally, with Monday’s announcement by Eric Holder, we have a public acknowledgment by our country’s top law enforcement official that the War on Drugs and its policies, implemented since the 1970’s, have failed. Holder went further than to offer an empty statistic. He basically stated that…
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No Deportation for Small Amount of Marijuana
A man here in Georgia was stopped by the police who then found 1.3 grams of marijuana Little did he know that he would soon face deportation for this small amount of marijuana. Georgia has limited tolerance when it comes to drugs, and the State believed the man possessed marijuana with the intent to distribute…