A Michigan appeals court ruled against an Upper Peninsula prosecutor last week after she spewed prejudice against the pothead populous with a personal diatribe against the states’ medical marijuana laws.

According to The Associated Press, Alger County prosecutor Karen Bahrman rubbed the court the wrong way during a courtroom tirade against medicinal marijuana. In the end, her big mouth caused the court to grant Paul Heminger a new trial after he was convicted of cultivating more cannabis plants than what is allowed under state law.

Bahrman used her closing argument to lecture the court about how the Alger Hemp Coalition was essentially a cult of hippie potheads whose "vision for the country where everybody can walk around stoned."

"They do nothing to support the government services they want, and have nothing but criticism for the government services they don't want," said Bahrman during the trial. "We're trespassers and tramplers of their rights right up until they need us to protect them from the violence that they attract to the community."

However, her opinionated argument did not fly with the court, which on Friday issued a verdict that stated Bahrman violated Heminger’s right to a fair trial with her "unfounded, irrelevant and inflammatory statements,"

“The prosecutor's closing argument was clearly and thoroughly improper," said the court. "The prosecutor embarks on a political commentary, and a personal diatribe discrediting the (law) as a whole. … She calls the act 'meaningless,' and suggests that those suffering from chronic pain are simply cheating the system."

 

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