7/20/13 - Sentencing has been delayed until next month for three people charged after a raid on a now-closed medical marijuana dispensary. Marshall Alternatives in Handy Township was raided in March of 2012 following an alleged sale to an undercover officer, who posed as a legal card-carrying medical marijuana patient. Owners Alan Marshall and Christi Marshall both pleaded guilty to charges of possession of marijuana with intent to deliver for three separate incidents. Former employee Stephanie Baxter also entered a plea to three reduced misdemeanor counts of delivering marijuana without remuneration. All three were to have been sentenced Thursday, but that has been rescheduled for August 22nd because Circuit Court Judge Michael Hatty was unavailable. Their cases had been on hold while the Michigan Supreme Court reviewed a similar case, eventually ruling that dispensaries are not permitted under the Medical Marihuana Act approved by Michigan voters in 2008. A fourth defendant, April Sundie Smith, was previously sentenced to three days of jail and one year of probation for her guilty plea to a lesser included offense of delivering marijuana without remuneration.
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