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- just a follow-up on the Robert Parish story. clipped from
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- WALTHAM, Mass. (UPI) -- Boston Celtics center Robert Parish pleaded
- guilty Thursday to misdemeanor marijuana possession and was placed on
- six months unsupervised probation.
- After Parish waived his right to a jury trial, Waltham District Court
- Judge Paul Cavanaugh imposed the minimum penalty and continued the case
- without finding until July 29. Parish was also ordered to pay $30 in
- court fees.
- ``I hope you put this behind you,'' Cavanaugh told Parish. ``And you
- restore the confidence and trust of the people of Boston.''
- Prosecutor Kurt Schwartz, who had recommended the minimum sentence,
- said he was satified with the resolution of the case.
- ``He received the statutory sentence. Leave it to everybody else to
- decide what that does for society,'' Schwartz said. ``But I think Mr.
- Parish will tell you that it was not easy going through what he went
- through and that he has paid a price.''
- Parish, who at 39 is the oldest player in the NBA and a nine-time all
- star, had no comment after the appearance. His attorney, Harry Mannion,
- said Parish ``accepted his responsibility in this matter and he made
- apologies to the fans, to his teammates, to the NBA. And he also made
- the apology to himself that this will not be repeated.''
- In early February a drug-sniffing dog discovered a package addressed
- to Parish containing 2 ounces of marijuana during a routine inspection
- by federal agents in San Francisco, officials said. The unopened package
- was flown to Massachusetts where another drug-sniffing police dog
- confirmed the contents before a warrant was obtained to open it.
- On Feb. 11 the package was resealed and delivered by an undercover
- state police officer to Heather Graves, a house guest at Parish's home
- in the exclusive Boston suburb of Weston. When police returned 10
- minutes later with a search warrant, they found the package along with
- another three ounces of marijuana. Both Parish and Graves, 24, were
- charged with possession of marijuana.
- Following his arrest Parish cooperated with police, admitted that the
- marijuana was for his personal use and apologized to his fans, fellow
- players and the Celtic organization.
- Parish is in his 13th season with the Celtics after spending the
- first four seasons of his career with the Golden State Warriors. Parish
- averages 11.9 points and 9.5 rebounds this season. For his career, he
- averages 16.2 points and 10.1 rebounds.
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- is this normal punishment in massachussetts?
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- -bryan
- butler@cluster.gps.caltech.edu, or butler_b@caltech.edu
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- "Instead of all of this energy and effort directed at the war
- to end drugs, how about a little attention to drugs which will
- end war?" Albert Hoffman
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