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    Unhappy Missing Court Due to Lack of Notification of Date Change

    My question involves criminal law for the state of: Iowa. If someone were to get in trouble for marijuana, that in time will eventually be either decriminalized OR allowed medically, & that person would qualify for a legit prescription because of health conditions - what should that someone do when being wrongfully accused of missing court because the court date/time was changed without notification?

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    Doctors cannot write a script for mj use. It is in violation of Federal law. One should have know to appear and appeared to have discovered a continuance granted. Then they should have confirmed the new court date.

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    Default Re: Missing Court Due to Lack of Notification of Date Change

    The theoretical possibility that the legislature may legalize medical marijuana in your state does not of itself mean that the theoretical legislation would extend to forgiveness of your criminal conduct.

    If your court date was changed without notice, and you know that you missed your court date, you can make arrangements to appear in court.

    In most cases when a defendant claims he was not notified of a change of court date, it's because the defendant didn't give the court a current address. But whatever happened, once the defendant learns that he missed his court date it's easy enough to appear - and, in terms of getting the court to excuse the non-appearance, the sooner the better.

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