Title:

Columbia Student to Enter Treatment Program

Description:

A young man who was a student at Columbia University was charged by police with selling marijuana and has been granted a sentence to be spent in a treatment facility as outlined by an agreement reached between the prosecutor and the Philadelphia County criminal attorneys representing him. The prosecutors had originally argued that the young man wasn't eligible for a treatment option for his sentence because he'd sold the drugs in addition to having taken them himself. The lawyers for the defendant argued that he'd already tried to seek professional help before his arrest and that this should be sufficient for no jail time.