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Report: Lincecum reaches deal on drug charge

San Francisco Giants ace Tim Lincecum has an agreement with a prosecutor in his home state of Washington that could settle his misdemeanor marijuana charge, The Columbian reported Friday.

The Vancouver, Wash., newspaper said Clark County prosecutors have reached a deal with a lawyer for the 2008 Cy Young Award winner that would result in a $250 fine for possessing a marijuana pipe.

Grant Hansen, a Clark County deputy prosecutor, told the newspaper his office is willing to dismiss a misdemeanor charge of possessing 3.3 grams of marijuana.

“We negotiated the case in the manner we do with just about every first-time marijuana-drug paraphernalia case where the individual is cooperative with the officer,” Hansen told The Columbian. “We dismissed possession of marijuana and amended the other charge to buying or selling drug paraphernalia, a Class A civil infraction.”

The agreement still must be approved by a judge. On Thursday, a spokesperson with the Clark County district attorney’s office told The Associated Press that Judge Darvin Zimmerman has been assigned the case.

Hansen did not immediately return phone and e-mail messages left late Friday by The AP.

The prosecutor told The Columbian “it could have been the kid next door” getting the same treatment. “The fact it’s a celebrity doesn’t mean he doesn’t get the same deal.”

Virtual Tim Lincecum (who should realy put a towel on) thanked Phoenix Wright for his services.

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1. RMc is the loyal supporter of the MLB event Posted: November 07, 2009 at 07:20 PM (#3381921)

Virtual Tim Lincecum (who should realy put a towel on)

What's worse: smoking pot or listening to Wang Chung? You decide.

2. philly Posted: November 07, 2009 at 07:40 PM (#3381934)

So now he's a dealer?

It really is a gateway drug.

3. Swedish Chef Posted: November 07, 2009 at 07:53 PM (#3381945)

The prosecutor told The Columbian “it could have been the kid next door” getting the same treatment. “The fact it’s a celebrity doesn’t mean he doesn’t get the same deal.”

What if he was black?

4. Infinite Yost (Voxter)

Posted: November 07, 2009 at 08:00 PM (#3381953)

Smoking pot and then listening to Wang Chung is not recommended. You can hurt yourself when you get the giggles.

“it could have been the kid next door” getting the same treatment. “The fact it’s a celebrity doesn’t mean he doesn’t get the same deal.”

If it had been the kid next door, he probably just would have got jacked and not run in. In my experience.

5. Walt Davis Posted: November 07, 2009 at 08:27 PM (#3381974)

For those who wondered why Lincecum just turned his #### over to the cops without a search:

first-time marijuana-drug paraphernalia case where the individual is cooperative with the officer

It's a nice little racket the police run. Turn it over or consent to the search and, sometimes, they'll go "easy" on you. Insist on your rights and ...

6. Greg (U)K Posted: November 07, 2009 at 09:06 PM (#3382002)

There's a Vancouver, Washington?
Does that ever confuse people?

7. Enrico Pallazzo Posted: November 07, 2009 at 09:33 PM (#3382020)

8. Harry Balsagne's transparent jealousy

Posted: November 07, 2009 at 09:41 PM (#3382023)

You can get charged for owning a pipe? They sell them on the friggin' streets up here and are not shy about it whatsoever. There are literally two head shops on the same street within 2 blocks of each other where I live.

It's like that everywhere, as long as the shop is selling them for the purpose of smoking "tobacco".

However, once marijuana is smoked out of a pipe it's not difficult to determine what it's being used for.

9. Infinite Yost (Voxter)

Posted: November 07, 2009 at 09:48 PM (#3382026)

There's a Vancouver, Washington?

It's a suburb of Portland. Substantial size, too -- almost 200,000 people, if I recall. Despite all that, as you drive north out of Portland on I-5 or I-205, all the signs say, "North - Olympia - Seattle".

10. Enrico Pallazzo Posted: November 07, 2009 at 11:34 PM (#3382066)

However, once marijuana is smoked out of a pipe it's not difficult to determine what it's being used for

Ah, that's what I figured after I thought about it for a bit.

11. Crispix Attacks Posted: November 07, 2009 at 11:37 PM (#3382068)

You can get charged for owning a pipe? They sell them on the friggin' streets up here and are not shy about it whatsoever. There are literally two head shops on the same street within 2 blocks of each other where I live.

You must not live in Pennsylvania.

12. Greg (U)K Posted: November 07, 2009 at 11:41 PM (#3382069)

I was once coming out of a headshop on Queen St. in Toronto and overheard this lengthy conversation this middle aged American tourist was having with her two 8-12 year old sons about how marijuana was legal in Canada and all the people around them were high. It was very confusing

13. Dunn Deal Posted: November 08, 2009 at 09:47 AM (#3382208)

It was very confusing

Maybe if you weren't so stoned, you would have understood what she was saying more clearly. :-)

14. Avoid running at all times.-S. Paige Posted: November 08, 2009 at 10:14 AM (#3382209)

During the depressing high school years, my friends and I were high one night in the East Village and these two guys walk by and one of them says "sword fish!" to the other guy and then they both laugh really loudly. This happens just as we are walking by and we look at each other and then laugh really loudly. The guys don't even notice. The rest of the night we laugh about the "sword fish!" comment. We make this reference about every 5 minutes and each time we laugh. Then we passed out in on of our couches, but not before one of my friends says "sword fish!" and one of us gives an acknowledgment chuckle.

It's all very confusing. I still don't know why we laughed so much. Afterwards, when we made the swordfish comment, it didn't make us laugh.

And this is why weed should be legal. And I'm impartial. I don't even smoke it anymore. Quit after a major panic attack on it once.

15. PreservedFish Posted: November 08, 2009 at 11:02 AM (#3382212)

these two guys walk by and one of them says "sword fish!" to the other guy and then they both laugh really loudly.

That could have been me. Honestly. If it was in 2001 or thereabouts.

16. jwb Posted: November 08, 2009 at 11:16 AM (#3382215)

There's a Vancouver, Washington?

I went to Rome once. I saw the Colisseum. It was less impressive than I had been lead to believe.

17. Avoid running at all times.-S. Paige Posted: November 08, 2009 at 11:28 AM (#3382216)

That could have been me. Honestly. If it was in 2001 or thereabouts.

you're joking? right? I mean, now that I think of it, I could be conflating another story with another instance. was it post-college and I was drunk with a few friends and I heard the sword fish thing? (I definitely remember two guys walking by saying this). Was the weed thing another hilarious thing said by a pair of strangers? jesus, my memory is for shite. But yeah, this could have happened around 2001. although I would have been just out of college and it would have been 5 years since I smoked weed.

What was the joke?

18. Rafael Bellylard: Built like a Molina Posted: November 08, 2009 at 12:52 PM (#3382222)

During the depressing high school years, my friends and I were high one night in the East Village and these two guys walk by and one of them says "sword fish!"

Who were they, the Marx Brothers?

19. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66) Posted: November 08, 2009 at 02:23 PM (#3382228)

"she isn't? well, she drinks like one..."

20. calhounite Posted: November 08, 2009 at 02:50 PM (#3382235)

Heard the weed was the primary drug of choice to treat the infliction Lincecum has... RAS

Rocket Arm Syndrome

It's either that or pitch 10,000 innings in the Mexican league.

21. Jeff K. Posted: November 08, 2009 at 03:02 PM (#3382237)

What if he was black?

It's Washington. Now that the Sonics are gone, there's no reason for this to come up.

22. Lassus Posted: November 08, 2009 at 03:39 PM (#3382255)

I went to Rome once. I saw the Colisseum. It was less impressive than I had been lead to believe.

I dunno, it's not so bad.

23. jwb Posted: November 09, 2009 at 12:40 AM (#3382499)

I was in Rome en route to a family vacation, canoeing in Algonquin provincial park, to see the Oriskany battlefield site in 1972. I'm a second generation history nerd.

24. Tripon Posted: November 09, 2009 at 12:54 AM (#3382502)

21. Jeff K. Posted: November 08, 2009 at 09:02 AM (#3382237)
What if he was black?

It's Washington. Now that the Sonics are gone, there's no reason for this to come up.

What if he was Asian or Hispanic might be more relevant.

25. Lassus Posted: November 09, 2009 at 01:44 AM (#3382513)

I was in Rome en route to a family vacation, canoeing in Algonquin provincial park, to see the Oriskany battlefield site in 1972. I'm a second generation history nerd.

My hometown. I was less than a mile from the site. There was talk of arrowheads still being found in the 70's, but I was too young to really confirm that.

I'm always surprised that battle never got more play, historically, considering how important it was and the drama it contained.

26. Greg (U)K Posted: November 09, 2009 at 02:17 AM (#3382531)

Damn
I always considered Joseph Brant to be one of the first Canadian born military heroes. But upon looking it up I see he was born in present day Ohio. So I guess that leaves Arthur Currie maybe?

27. Greg (U)K Posted: November 09, 2009 at 02:23 AM (#3382534)

I've always wanted to have a discussion about the Revolutionary War from the American perspective, coming as I do from Loyalist ancestors I imagine we would have differing perspectives.

However I've always been hampered by the fact that
A) I don't know many Americans
and
B) I don't know much about the Revolutionary War, and most of what I do know comes from the KOEI game, "Liberty or Death"

28. Tripon Posted: November 09, 2009 at 02:38 AM (#3382549)

27. Greg K : President of the Shooty Fanclub Posted: November 08, 2009 at 08:23 PM (#3382534)
I've always wanted to have a discussion about the Revolutionary War from the American perspective, coming as I do from Loyalist ancestors I imagine we would have differing perspectives.

However I've always been hampered by the fact that
A) I don't know many Americans
and
B) I don't know much about the Revolutionary War, and most of what I do know comes from the KOEI game, "Liberty or Death"

Quick Primer:

1. Americans think Loyalists were traitors to the rebellion. And they wanted to conquer Canada.

29. Barry`s_Lazy_Boy Posted: November 09, 2009 at 02:58 AM (#3382563)

Hey, I got the exact same plea bargain in 1998.

30. 'Spos Posted: November 09, 2009 at 03:06 AM (#3382566)

Americans think Loyalists were traitors to the rebellion. And they wanted to conquer Canada.

Which, of course didn't work out so well 35 years later.

31. Tulo's Fishy Mullet (mrams) Posted: November 09, 2009 at 03:33 AM (#3382582)

I've charged about 500 cases just like this one, and I vouch for the prosecutors on this, cases like this, nobody has time for them, and every offer is the same no matter who it is for a first-timer like this. In charging a case like this you wouldn't even notice the race of the person, you'd scan the police report, recognize it as a simple possession case, notice the amount, check for priors, notice it is a first offense, and 'fill in the blanks' on the criminal complaint form, and hand it to the staff to type out the complaint.

Zero people involved in the 'system' from DA, Judge, Court Reporters, Defense Attys to the Defendants themselves want to go to trial on a 1st time poss. case. The offer is always a better solution for everybody. Unless or until you can convince lawmakers to decriminalize 'simple possession' this is the alternative.

32. meatwad Posted: November 09, 2009 at 03:41 AM (#3382587)

know of a few people who have gotten that. sadly the only reason i know of most of the officers in the revolutionary war is because of that damn game. might have to download it for my emulater

33. Lassus Posted: November 09, 2009 at 03:52 AM (#3382590)

Does that game deal with specific battles? I wonder how the Battle of Oriskany has gone in endless computer game simulations.

34. Jeff K. Posted: November 09, 2009 at 05:09 AM (#3382617)

B) I don't know much about the Revolutionary War, and most of what I do know comes from the KOEI game, "Liberty or Death"

Spotty knowledge mostly gleaned from an unauthoritative source that may have taken certain liberties with events for their own legitimate (commercial) reasons? As long as you refuse to accept any criticism or brook the slightest disagreement or demurral, you'll be fine.

35. jwb Posted: November 09, 2009 at 05:42 AM (#3382638)

Americans. . . wanted to conquer Canada.

Which, of course didn't work out so well 35 years later.

Didn't work out so well in 1775, either.

36. jwb Posted: November 09, 2009 at 06:13 AM (#3382663)

Here's that website's summary of the Battle of Oriskany.

37. zenbitz Posted: November 09, 2009 at 06:22 AM (#3382667)

McCovey "Chonic"-les take:

http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2009/11/6/1119491/star-pitcher-pinched

38. dirk

Posted: November 09, 2009 at 06:43 AM (#3382675)

can the drug war end already? any cursory examination of its effects shows that it does way more harm than good. it's the greatest example of unintended consequences ever devised.

39. Tripon Posted: November 09, 2009 at 06:53 AM (#3382680)

dirk, are you weak against the war on drugs?

40. dirk

Posted: November 09, 2009 at 06:57 AM (#3382685)

i'm high right now so maybe i'm not the best guy to ask

41. dirk

Posted: November 09, 2009 at 07:14 AM (#3382693)

but i'd miss an opportunity if i didn't add that the freedoms that human history have fought for run contrary to any amalgamation of the "drug war" or any "war" government wages on its populace.

42. MM1f Posted: November 09, 2009 at 07:19 AM (#3382696)

Lincecum makes drug deal?

43. PreservedFish Posted: November 09, 2009 at 06:17 PM (#3383042)

That could have been me. Honestly. If it was in 2001 or thereabouts.

you're joking? right? I mean, now that I think of it, I could be conflating another story with another instance. was it post-college and I was drunk with a few friends and I heard the sword fish thing? (I definitely remember two guys walking by saying this). Was the weed thing another hilarious thing said by a pair of strangers? jesus, my memory is for shite. But yeah, this could have happened around 2001. although I would have been just out of college and it would have been 5 years since I smoked weed.

What was the joke?

I'm not joking.

For the summer of 2001, my two best friends and I would spontaneously say "Swordfish" to each other and we would all crack up. I can date it well because we took a big roadtrip that summer, but we all lived in NYC at the time so we probably used the joke there too.

I cannot say exactly why we thought the word "swordfish" was so funny. It had something to do with the movie, which came out right around then. I think sometimes we added an SNL-style Sean Connery accent to it. And we may have been smoking up when we came up with the joke.

It actually still cracks me up a bit.

44. Der Komminsk-sar Posted: November 09, 2009 at 06:20 PM (#3383046)

That explains your user name?

45. PreservedFish Posted: November 09, 2009 at 06:28 PM (#3383053)

No, it doesn't, except for the fact that I apparently find fish of many different stripes to be amusing.

Preserved Fish is a historical character that I read about in a Washington Irving story - you can google him - although I thought he was fictional when I chose the name. And I do enjoy eating preserved fish. Got anchovies on my pizza last night.

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