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    Socialite Kan-anek given 2 years and 9 months in jail for drug abuse

    The Appeal Court today sentenced businessman and socialite. Kan-anek Patchimsawas two years and nine months in prison after finding him guilty of drug charges.

    The second court’s ruling upheld earlier ruling by the Criminal Court (first court) that he was guilty for using “ice” drug and possessing it with intent to sell.

    Upon hearing the judgement of jail sentence with no suspension, his lawyer posted 450,000 baht bail with the court for temporary release to appeal to the Supreme Court.

    Kan-anek was arrested for allegedly using the drug “ice” and possessing it with intent to sell on February 12, 2015.

    Sutthisan police station knocked on the door of an apartment and found Kan-anek in possession of “ice” flakes and drug equipment. A urine test later showed a positive result for him using the drug. The “ice” weighed 0.676 gram.

    The Criminal Court sentenced him to two years and nine months in jail and a fine of 200,000 baht for the charge but granted him conditional release on 350,000 baht bail.

    Kan-anek married a beauty queen in 1983. His son Kanphitak made headlines in 2007 when drove his Mercedes into a bus stop, killing one person and injuring many others, in a road-rage incident after an accident with a city bus driver.

    Socialite Kan-anek given 2 years and 9 months in jail for drug abuse - Thai PBS English News

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit
    possessing it with intent to sell.
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    he “ice” weighed 0.676 gram.
    Hardly gonna get rich with that.

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    Always amuses me that access to the Supreme Court is not gained through the test of an important principle in the rule of law, as other countries, but merely a default mechanism delaying punishment because one simply has sufficient funds to pay for the process.

    Justice delayed is justice denied.

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit
    The second court’s ruling upheld earlier ruling by the Criminal Court (first court) that he was guilty for using “ice” drug and possessing it with intent to sell.
    The headline is misleading; possession with the intent to sell is quite different than use or possession for use.

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    A case much enjoyed by many with knowledge of the Moo Ham case and the subsequent TV interview.

    The man's an arrogant piece of shit.

    I suspect the family of the old woman that his son killed, and the disdain they were shown on national TV for being 'poor and jealous and hateful of us rich' will have smiled a little bit with his humiliating arrest.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seekingasylum View Post
    Always amuses me that access to the Supreme Court is not gained through the test of an important principle in the rule of law, as other countries, but merely a default mechanism delaying punishment because one simply has sufficient funds to pay for the process.

    Justice delayed is justice denied.
    Familiar justice, per se, never prevails nor serves the natural commons within a historical plutocratic culture - and certainly shouldn't be broached as if it does.

    Going through the motions as if it mattered.

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