Can someone please explain?

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Can someone please explain what the reasoning would be behind charging someone for the same exact crime over and over again? Example: One person, three charges SALE OR DELIVERY OF METHAMPHETAMINE Statute: 893.13(1)(A)(1)/F. They either possessed the drug or they didn't. How did they possess the same type of drug three times at the same time? Is this just to jack up bond?

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News story..... You can’t form a coherent sentence idiot.

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Go ask twitter, Mr. Reporter, surely, they are the experts on all things. If you are a reporter, why not just contact PIO and ask your question? Your either lazy or incompetent, or you have a agenda your trying to shape your story into. That agenda appears to be overcharging poor pitiful drug dealers, isnt once enough, why you gotta keep stacking charges on them? I guess murdering three people should only be just one charge?

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Can someone please explain what the reasoning would be behind charging someone for the same exact crime over and over again? Example: One person, three charges SALE OR DELIVERY OF METHAMPHETAMINE Statute: 893.13(1)(A)(1)/F. They either possessed the drug or they didn't. How did they possess the same type of drug three times at the same time? Is this just to jack up bond?

Doing a news story.

Sure, I’ll explain. 893.13(1)(a) denotes sale of a controlled substance. (6)(a) denotes felony possession, which is everything except a small amount of marijuana. That one person was charged after selling to a detective or while in possession of meth in a way that shows possession with intent to sell. Many times detectives will charge possession as one count and sale as another for the same transaction. The dates on the case you speak of are most likely different. Generally if you possess meth, or any controlled substance, but have some in your pocket, some in your car and some in your purse you usually only get one charge. Usually is the operative term. But without knowing the facts of the case you are talking about we are just guessing. Sale and/or delivery do elevate the degree of the felony and therefor the bond. If it is a sale case the detectives want to show a pattern of activity, not just a one time deal. That goes to show motive. But absent violent crime or obvious indications that the defendant will flee the county post-arrest, we don’t care about bond. Bond is set based on a schedule and aggravating or mitigating circumstances. And even then the jail usually follows the schedule. The SAO can try and jack the bond up at advisory just as the defense will try to lower it. But that has nothing to do with us. The only exception is when a warrant is issued the judge sets the bond at that time.