A criminal justice abuse thread

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A criminal justice abuse thread

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A small sampling of some brickbat stories of recent note:

A police officer mistook a man's phone for a gun, shot at him, had a panic attack, and the man was charged with felony assault for causing the panic attack. He spent over a month in jail because it:

http://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/crim ... 759465001/

A New Orleans' DA's office was creating fake subpeonas to force testimony from victims and witnesses and getting judges to jail them for it when they refused to comply:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-des ... es-in-jail

A crime-lab in Boston withheld thousands of exculpatory blood alcohol tests in DWI cases:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/ ... J/amp.html
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