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Newshawk: Syringe Exchange Facts www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/node/66
Webpage: http://mapinc.org/url/8LwY8ths
Pubdate: Tue, 18 May 2010
Source: Modesto Bee, The (CA)
Copyright: 2010 The Modesto Bee
Contact:
Website: http://www.modbee.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/271
Author: Merrill Balassone
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?137 (Needle Exchange)
RULING HURTS IN MODESTO NEEDLE EXCHANGE CASE
A judge ruled Monday that two people arrested for handing out clean
syringes to drug users and collecting dirty ones will be barred from
telling a jury they did so to help prevent a public health emergency.
Kristy Tribuzio, 36, and Brian Robinson, 38, face up to a year in
jail after undercover officers said they caught the two operating an
unauthorized needle exchange in a south Modesto park in April 2009.
Stanislaus County Superior Court Judge Ricardo Cordova said the pair
had other options that were legal, such as lobbying local officials
to change the law. In September 2008, the county Board of Supervisors
voted against legalizing needle exchange programs over the
recommendation of county health officials.
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MAP posted-by: Richard Lake
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