California has strict laws against producing narcotics. It’s crucial to understand your legal options and the potential consequences of a conviction if you’re accused of producing narcotics. Here’s what you need to know about California’s drug production laws if you’ve been suspected of cooking meth, converting marijuana into hashish or hash oil, or producing any other restricted substance.
Remember that if you are facing any criminal charges, it is important to have a criminal defense attorney on your side. Contact Chambers Law Firm at 714-760-4088 now to request a free legal consultation.
Which legal provisions deal with drug manufacturing?
Health and Safety Code 11379.6 HS is the California statute that governs the manufacturing of controlled chemicals. According to the legislation, this crime is a felony punished by a maximum punishment of $50,000 and three, five, or seven years in the county jail.
Prison sentences and aggravating circumstances
It is a criminal to even merely offer producing drugs; this offense carries a three-, four-, or five-year jail sentence. A second consecutive 5-year prison sentence will also be imposed upon conviction if minors who are under the age of 16 reside there, are present there, or suffer harm there.
If the substance in question contains PCP, methamphetamines, or GHB, even harsher penalties may be applied. The prison term will also be increased if someone is hurt or killed while producing the drugs. Additionally, you could anticipate an increase in your prison term if your drug manufacturing activities resulted in additional violations of a similar nature. For instance, you might face harsher punishments if you let the narcotic to be made in your home.
If this is your first drug-related charge, the only thing you need to be concerned about under California law is that. However, your sentence can be increased if you have previously been convicted of drug-related offenses.
How about penalties?
Depending on whatever specific circumstances apply in your case, you may be subject to different fines. There isn’t a fixed sum that can be enforced depending on the situation. $50,000 is the maximum possible fine.
Potential countermeasures
Drug manufacturing cases can benefit from a variety of strong defense tactics. If you schedule a free in-person appointment with criminal defense lawyer Dan Chambers, he will evaluate which approach is best for your case.
He could be able to demonstrate, for instance, that you were just in the wrong location at the wrong time and had nothing to do with the crime being committed there when you were detained. Explaining that the cops illegally entered the building where the drug manufacturing was taking place and searched and seized it is another frequently successful tactic. The charges against you must be withdrawn because if they entered the building unlawfully, all of the evidence they discovered would be inadmissible in court.
It’s possible that you had only meant to produce medications but had not yet taken any action. Perhaps the police pulled you over for speeding and found meth lab supplies in your vehicle. Though you hadn’t yet done anything, the police detained you for drug manufacture. You cannot be found guilty of a crime you didn’t actually commit.
Attorney Chambers may use the fact that the accusations made against you are wholly untrue as another smart legal tactic in your case. Perhaps the police or a confidential source who supplied information to the police to help them obtain a warrant made a false statement regarding your involvement in the production of drugs. Even though an eyewitness may have identified you and said that you committed the crime, you were not involved.
Contact Chambers Law Firm at 714-760-4088 now if you are in need of a free legal consultation with a criminal defense attorney.
