TEEN TAKES COCAINE TO PROM, ARGUES BAG SEARCH A VIOLATION

A student found at her high school prom with cocaine in her purse has failed to have her case thrown out as a violation of her rights. In convicting the young woman, Ontario court Judge Amit Ghosh said there was nothing wrong with the mandatory search. “Despite the absence of reasonable grounds, the mandatory security search of bags at a prom is reasonable in all the circumstances,” Ghosh said in his recent decision. “This was a voluntarily attended prom party.” Maria Calabretta was charged with possession in June 2019 when she went to her prom at a banquet hall in Vaughan, Ont. She had a two- gram bag of cocaine in her purse. She stood in a security line at the hall while school administrators briefly checked bags and purses The judge noted the teen could simply have chosen to leave the prom to get rid of the drugs, and then returned.