At the outset, I am absolutely-certain that the vast majority of Schering-Plough truckdrivers are decent, hard-working, honest, sober folk -- so I apologize for running this at all -- but the prosecutor's remark, at trial (bolded, below) is grin-worthy, beyond peradventure:
. . . .Morris County Assistant Prosecutor Kelley Lavery told the jury [the defendant] owned the tractor-trailer and was hauling two loads on March 10, 2008, when the rig was pulled over by a New Jersey State Police trooper for a routine inspection. One load was legitimate: a shipment of pharmaceutical supplies en route from North Ridge, Calif. to Schering-Plough in Kenilworth. The other, Lavery said, was illegitimate, containing 147.2 pounds of marijuana with a street value of $515,900. . . .
"Even if Cheech and Chong were working as hard as they could for a year, they probably couldn’t smoke all this pot," Lavery told the jury. . . .
At the close of the prosecutor's case-in-chief, the defendant (reportedly) told the bailiff he had "the munchies". [I kid. It does allow for a cheerfully-"holiday"-colored graphic, though, doesn't it?]
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