Three judges on the Washington Court of Appeals just overturned a conviction against an accused drug dealer by using woke standards for the term “Mexican ounce,” which they’re misconstruing.
Jesus Ibarra-Erives was arrested in the apartment he was living in after officers found a backpack with seven one-ounce “bindles” of methamphetamine and five bindles of heroin with a street value of $8,000. Police also found a digital scale and a box of plastic sandwich bags.
The amount of heroin was slightly less than an ounce — the typical amount of drugs that’s carried with the intent to deliver. To help establish that intent, a detective testified that a “Mexican ounce”
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