Your presence is requested on this thread, so you can shill for the jackboot thugs who locked this guy up and the policies that led to this insane situation.
Both were prescribing Vicodin, and neither knew about the other. This is known as "doctor shopping".
In 1981 and 1982, O'Hara served eight months of a one-year prison sentence for possession of hallucinogenic drugs. In 1986 through 1988, he served two years of a five-year prison sentence for trafficking in cocaine and dissuading a witness.
This guy isn't some innocent schmuck "caught up" in the system. He's a drug dealer.
What if he was caught with 580 Vicodin pills instead of 58 -- but he was being treated and had a prescription? Should the jury be told that that it's legal to possess Vicodin if you have "a prescription"?
So it's really a question of what constitutes "too many" pills. You or I possessing 58 pills -- no problem. But this clown was driving around with pills in an unlabeled bottle and had a history of drug dealing, so the prosecutor took advantage of a poorly written law and went after him.