1.   He had avoided jail time on his last cocaine possession conviction because a sympathetic judge felt his rehab and cancer treatments would be better conducted outside confinement.

2.   Strawberry was being tested as often as twice a week, as provided by the terms of his probation for a cocaine possession conviction.

3.   Students can lose at least one year of financial aid for a drug possession conviction and at least two years for a conviction of selling drugs.

4.   A first offense possession conviction makes a student ineligible for aid for one year after the date of conviction and a second offense for two years.

5.   A third possession conviction results in indefinite ineligibility.

6.   Booker said he has fought for nine years to have his cocaine possession conviction reversed because he was framed.

7.   He spent six months in prison on a drug possession conviction and then made a political comeback.