A San Diego Court ruled the identity of a deputy district attorney who has admitted to being a member of a marijuana collective must be released. Deputy District Attorney James Pitts confirmed his membership in the now defunct Amsterdam Alternative Care. The collective was one of several shut down after being raided last September.

San Diego resident and Navy veteran Jovan Jackson is being charged with several counts involving possession of medical marijuana and the sale of medical marijuana. If found guilty, Jackson could spend several years in prison.

San Diego defense attorneys understand why Jackson's defense wants to call Pitts as a defense witness.

If the defense attorney can say: The accused is just doing what your deputy DA's are doing, how or why you prosecute someone like this? That's a fair strategy for the defense attorney. What you want to show is that all sorts of normal people utilize medical marijuana. They do so as lawfully as they can.

The DA is prosecuting these types of cases, marijuana cases in general, and to have one of their own using medical marijuana is probably not something they're happy with.