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Friday, November 18, 2005
Maybe we were more sophisticated when we drilled holes in their foreheads...
Check this out: A woman spent a year in a work-release program for possession of a controlled substance.
The, er, substance, was a)prescribed by her doctor and b)not illegal.
The judge, prosecutor and defense attorney all failed to notice that even if the woman was patently guilty of what the police charged, there was no crime!
The woman is now on probation for giving half a Clonazapem tablet to a fellow prisoner in her program, which constitutes distribution of a controlled substance.
The legal and law enforcement professionals who deprived a mentally-ill woman suffering severe anxiety of liberty and labor without cause for a year... feel really bad about it.
I don't know if they're to experience other consequences - the article doesn't say - but I have a feeling that when we get all done, any costs borne for the injury done the woman will be borne by the taxpayers. After all, government messing up the lives of struggling citizens is de rigueur. It's only if something offends the sensibilities of those with power over us that heads roll - our own.
The wrong person faced sentencing at the end of this one.
posted by gbarto at 5:13 PM
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