Meth in a Sock

<span style="font-weight: 400;">An Idaho court improperly rejected a man’s guilty plea to drug possession after determining that he may have a “necessity defense,” an appeals court <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/meth.pdf"><strong>ruled</strong></a>. The man said he put meth in a sock after finding it on the street to keep it away from children. </span>

BOISE, Idaho – An Idaho court improperly rejected a man’s guilty plea to drug possession after determining that he may have a “necessity defense,” an appeals court ruled . The man said he put meth in a sock after finding it on the street to keep it away from children.

A court cannot reject a guilty plea based on its own assessment of a possible necessity defense.

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