Texas court upholds Tobacco Road owner's 90-year sentence for synthetic drugs
Justices with Texas' highest court on criminal matters upheld the 90-year prison sentence of a Lubbock businessman convicted more than three years ago of selling so-called synthetic marijuana out of his smoke shops. In a 12-page opinion issued last week, justices found that testimony from an expert witness was sufficient to help jurors determine that a chemical structure found in synthetic marijuana seized from 54-year-old Anthony Carter's home and businesses were illegal under a 2015 revision of the state's drug statute prohibiting penalty group 2A, which used chemicals to mimic the effect...
Source: lubbockonline.com