Legal Question in Criminal Law in Massachusetts

Re: Marijuana Possesion

As a first time offender in Virginia, your friend,

in return for his plea of guilty in the general district court, should be eligible for the disposition of Suspended Imposition of Sentence (SIS). However, if he is fortunate enough to receive this disposition, your friend will in all probability be required to complete community service, the ASAP program, as well as have his license suspended for the required term, and pay the court costs associated with processing his case. Upon completion of all the conditions(not just one or two), your friend will then be eligible to have his criminal case closed without any record of any conviction whatsoever.

Whether the Massachusetts DMV authorities take action to suspend his driving privilege will be up to them in accordance with what the law requires in that particular state.

If, for whatever reason, your friend is unable to complete the conditions of his SIS in Virginia, the Virginia court will normally abrogate the SIS and impose at least part, if not all, of the sentence which was suspended, and, your friend will then carry this record of conviction for the rest of his days, not merely if he returns to Massachusetts, but wherever he goes in these United States.