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updated 7:46 p.m. ET Nov. 29, 2007

SHREVEPORT, La. - Former Cowboys quarterback Quincy Carter has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of possessing marijuana.

Carter entered the plea Wednesday in state district court, Caddo Parish Assistant District Attorney Brian Barber said Thursday.

Judge Charles Scott fined Carter $300, put him on six months’ unsupervised probation and suspended a 30-day jail term.

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Carter was arrested last month when he and his car matched the descriptions in a report of suspicious activity allegedly involving marijuana at a gas station, Barber said. Carter passed a sobriety test, Barber said, but, when asked if he had marijuana, turned over 3 grams. That’s about the weight of three packets of artificial sweetener.

Shreveport police originally booked Carter with second-offense possession, a felony, because of a Dec. 15, 2006 arrest on marijuana possession charges in Irving, Texas. But the Texas case has not been tried, so the Louisiana charge was changed to first offense, a misdemeanor, Barber said.

“Had they prosecuted him on his prior marijuana charge last year, the Louisiana marijuana charge would have been a felony,” he said.

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The 30-year-old Carter has not played in the NFL since 2004, when he appeared in seven games for the New York Jets. He was a second-round pick out of Georgia by the Cowboys in 2001 and started all 16 games for Dallas in 2003.