A woman in her late 30s was recently arrested at a Miami nightclub with one Ecstasy pill. Not a frequent drug user, she had never been arrested before. She potentially faced deportation if convicted of the drug offense.
The single mother, whose name has been withheld by her lawyer, was referred to a brand new Miami-Dade program referred to as “drug court lite.” Under the program, adjudication was withheld after three months, and she put the entire incident behind her.
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