Guilty By Association

The Law of unintended circumstance can be so devastating, it forces a mandatory sentence and gives the judge no lead way. Through this law a person can be guilty for having any knowledge of drugs usage or presumed to have. Just delivering a phone message between conspirators may be construed as culpability. This was all portrayed in the film of the same title name as the poem it inspired here.

 

Guilty By Association

Got a right to choose but see that you do not

Use alcohol in your house or smoke pot

Involvement with drugs of any kind

Lands you in trouble and can put you behind

To serve the mandatory sentence in drugs conspiracy

You need only be implicated and you’re pronounced guilty

Because you take a message on the phone

You can be sentenced for 20 years and your life’s gone

Associating with users or just knowing they do

Sell or distribute drugs and smoke them too

Should be enough to get you locked away

Only cooperating can get you shorten your stay

Cooperating by revealing co-conspirators details

Intimate facts like calls, drops, meets or emails

Are all useable except what if you never knew

That it was drug activity surrounding you

Imagine not knowing causes you to serve more years

Owning up and cooperating reduces time, it appears

No defense is there from the law of unintended circumstance

     Complete disassociation from drugs is your only chance

 

 

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