State v. Brown

PAUL A. BONIN, Judge.

| Leslie Brown was charged by bill of information with the crime of possession of marijuana, third offense, which is a felony. Later, the district attorney agreed to nolle prosequi the charge in order to permit Mr. Brown to enter the district attorney’s pretrial diversionary program'. “Typically,” according to Mr. Brown’s counsel alluding to a conversation with the trial judge, a defendant in Orleans Parish, as a condition of diversion, agrees to “waive prescription” in the event that he fails the program and the district attorney wishes to re-institute prosecution.

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