Beasley v. State

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING

Appellant Beasley was charged with, tried and convicted of possession of over 100 pounds of cannabis. He was sentenced to 15 years in the state prison.

His appeal challenges the validity of various pretrial and trial proceedings in the court below. We initially determined that none of his arguments had real merit, although there was support from certain decisions from the First District Court of Appeal for his assertion that prior to the 1979 legislative changes mere possession of cannabis, even in an amount in excess of 100 pounds, was a third degree felony punishable…