Bryan James Epis, 37, the first medical marijuana patient convicted in federal court after the passage of California’s Proposition 215, walked out of federal prison in Long Beach at approximately 4:00pm today, thanks to an order this morning by an appeals court in San Francisco.
Today the Ninth Circuit issued its third order this month in Bryan Epis' case, this time ordering the district court to release Bryan on bail pending appeal!
A federal judge in Sacramento was ordered Friday to release Bryan James Epis from prison while the U.S. Supreme Court weighs the fate of state-sanctioned medical marijuana cooperatives that operate wholly within California.
The earthquake has hit the West Coast. The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Monday ordered a district court to re-examine [Epis's] criminal sentence in light of Blakely v. Washington.
The case of a Butte County man sentenced to 10 years in prison for growing marijuana that he said was for himself and other patients was put on hold by an appeals court Monday to await the U.S. Supreme Court's verdict on federal authority over locally grown medical marijuana.
The first medical marijuana patient convicted in federal court after the passage of California’s Proposition 215 won a victory before an appeals court today. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today sent his case back to the District Court for reconsideration of his conviction and, at the least, re-sentencing.
A federal appeals court that has slapped restraints on the government's campaign against medical marijuana grappled Wednesday with its first criminal case on the issue, a Chico man's conviction and 10-year sentence for growing pot for himself and other patients.
A federal appeals court that has slapped restraints on the government's campaign against medical marijuana grappled Wednesday with its first criminal case on the issue, a Chico man's conviction and 10-year sentence for growing pot for himself and other patients.
A Chico man will be before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco this morning, arguing that his 2002 conviction for conspiring to grow medical marijuana was not only unconstitutional but based on misconduct by the U.S. Attorney’s office in Sacramento.
The appeal of Bryan James Epis’ federal conviction for growing medical marijuana made clear that the legal landscape has changed. Click
here to listen to an audio file of Bryan's appeal hearing (type in case number 02-10523).
SACRAMENTO - Self-proclaimed Chico medical marijuana grower Bryan Epis is appealing his federal cultivation conviction, asserting his jury was misled on the facts and the law.
Bryan James Epis, the first person associated with a California medical marijuana dispensary to be tried in federal court for growing pot, was sentenced Monday in Sacramento to a mandatory 10 years in prison.