Mill Creek has new drug law -- it could be obsolete in days
MILL CREEK — As state lawmakers debate whether to recriminalize simple drug possession, the Mill Creek City Council has passed its own ordinance.
Within days of it taking effect, the city’s new law could become obsolete.
That’s because it could soon be overridden, should the state Legislature come up with its own solution that pre-empts local laws.
Mill Creek follows Marysville as the second city in Snohomish County to pass a local law in response to the state Supreme Court’s Blake decision. In the February decision, five justices found the state’s statute criminalizing drug possession as a felony was unconstitutional, because it didn’t require prosecutors to prove someone knowingly, intentionally possessed drugs. It was a curveball that has far-reaching implications for the criminal justice system.
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