Criminal Defense Attorney
Criminal defense attorney specializing in marijuana regulations.
PROFILE
Allison Margolin
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FROM Allison Margolin
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
With mouth swabs, police check if drivers are high At a DUI checkpoint in downtown San Diego on Friday, police officers were using a special device -- the Dräger 5000 -- to test for seven drugs, including marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamines. But the device doesn’t reveal the levels of drugs in someone’s system -- just whether they’re there. And there could be some civil rights violations when police use it.
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The Other Man Stories of two men who meet by chance and emerge indelibly changed – or at least, one of them does.
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Revisiting showrunner Steven Bochco on his memoir Steven Bochco, the writer-producer behind record-breaking Emmy winners Hill Street Blues, LA Law and NYPD Blue, fought battles with everyone from out-of-control actors to network censors in his long career. He isn’t afraid to tell those tales in his memoir, Truth Is a Total Defense. This week we revisit the conversation where he shared some of his favorite stories with us.
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