{"id":62847,"date":"2014-05-01T12:43:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T16:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/woman-says-she-used-drugs-for-personal-problems"},"modified":"2014-05-01T12:44:16","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T16:44:16","slug":"no-jail-time-for-woman-who-used-drugs-for-personal-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/05\/no-jail-time-for-woman-who-used-drugs-for-personal-problems","title":{"rendered":"No Jail Time For Woman Who Used Drugs for “Personal Problems”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"drug-bust\"A woman told a magistrate that she used drugs because of personal problems.<\/p>\n

Cynthia Murphy-Rahming, 59, of Exuma, was in tears as she admitted to possession of small amounts of cocaine and marijuana during her arraignment before Magistrate Andrew Forbes.<\/p>\n

Asked why she had both drugs, Murphy-Rahming said she planned to lace her joint, adding that, \u201cI\u2019ve been going through some things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Murphy Rahming, who had a 1980 conviction for drug possession<\/strong>, said she had been clean for the past 10 years.<\/p>\n

Forbes said nothing would be gained by sending Murphy-Rahming to prison. Instead he gave her a conditional discharge, mandating her to attend drug treatment for a year.<\/p>\n

If Murphy-Rahming successfully completes the program, the case will be discharged. Failure to complete the program will result in six months\u2019 imprisonment.<\/p>\n

Source: www.thenassauguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite a mandatory 4-year jail sentence for possession of drugs, a Bahamian judge gave a conditional discharge to a woman who was in possession of marijuana and cocaine – because she had personal problems and was “going through some things”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":34284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[93,32,31,67,409,142,173],"class_list":["post-62847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-corruption","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-drugs","tag-hypocrisy","tag-incompetence","tag-injustice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}