It was his final opportunity to plea bargain with Hamilton County Common Pleas judge Melba Marsh, and Damiane Mitchell, 19, bungled it. A defendant in drug court, he’s been charged with marijuana trafficking but he had the audacity during a negotiation session in court to ask if he could have one last joint before agreeing to give up his vice of choice.
An admitted marijuana smoker since age 10, Mitchell advised the judge that giving up the drug was “going to be hard for me to do, to be honest with you.”
Marsh offered to erase the crime from his record if in return he gave up the drug for a certain time period. She started with Easter in April 2013; she moved the date up to Valentine’s Day in 2013, this Christmas and finally this Thanksgiving, which is less than a week away. Mitchell’s response, “I won’t want to. If I put my mind to it I can (but) I won’t want to.”
His final request of her, “I know this is probably not the right question to ask (but) can I get a little time at least (to) get one more joint in?’
