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  • Another viewpoint: Prosecutors have power to stop unreasonable imprisonment

    American Civil Liberties Union|Updated Mar 9, 2019

    Three years ago, Dasha Fincher was arrested in Monroe County, Georgia, after deputies performed an on-the-spot test of a bag of blue substance that they found in the car in which she was a passenger. The suspicious stuff tested positive for methamphetamines. After her arrest, the judge in her case set bail at $1 million because she was perceived as a drug trafficker. There was just one problem. The roadside drug-test was wrong. The blue substance wasn’t meth — it was cotton candy. Fincher would spend three months in jail bec...