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"Taking a joint to court?"

If, by 'taking a joint to court', you mean, 'had a joint in her purse, whilst being a passenger in a car that committed a minor traffic violation, and having the police officer demand she identify herself (why? She was the passenger in a traffic violation), arrest her, and take her from there to the County Courthouse', sure.

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I was mistaken. The way the paragraph read seemed to state that she told the judge she couldn't pay and was fined, then fined for a joint found in her purse; I did not see the joint was actually discovered during a previous instance.

Still, if you are already in trouble with the law, it seems incredibly foolish to continue to willfully break it by carrying around illegal substances with you.

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