Delivery of a controlled substance causing serious physical injury, offense of
This law is about giving someone a drug that is mixed with another drug, and that mix seriously hurts them. If a person hands off or passes along a Schedule I or Schedule II drug knowing it is mixed with another controlled substance, and someone gets seriously hurt from using it, that person has committed a crime. It does not matter if the person who got hurt chose to take the drug themselves — that is not a valid excuse. This crime is a class C felony.
Classifications stated in the statute. Actual outcomes vary.
579.021. of a causing , of — — definition. — 1. A person commits the offense of delivery of a controlled substance causing serious physical injury, as defined in section 556.061, if a person a controlled substance under section 579.020 knowing such substance is mixed with another controlled substance and serious physical injury results from the use of such controlled substance.
2. It shall not be a that the user contributed to the user's own serious physical injury by using the controlled substance or consenting to the of the controlled substance by another.
3. The offense of delivery of a controlled substance causing serious physical injury is a .
4. For purposes of this section, "controlled substance" means a , as defined in section 195.017.
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Source & history notes
(L. 2024 S.B. 754, et al.)
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