"...A man on a big farm tractor, angry about his recent arrest for resisting arrest and marijuana possession, was rolling across their vehicles -- five marked cruisers, one unmarked car and a transport van."
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"We had nothing to pursue him with," said Chief Deputy Philip Brooks.
"Brooks said the destroyed vehicles constituted more than half the fleet of sheriff's cruisers in the rural county on the Canadian border. Others were out on patrol at the time of the incident."
There are actually more "innocent" persons in prison than you might think!
Alan Dershowitz explained: "People are convicted, not for what they did, but for what can be proved. Often what can be proved is not what they did and what they did cannot be proved."
A goblin can be sent to prison by changing ONE letter in the cop's offense report! Suppose the offense report read:
"While on routine patrol, my partner Sam Spade and I saw Dudley Dobad, known to us as a car thief, sitting ON a late model Chevrolet vehicle parked in front of his residence. We ran the plates on the aforementioned vehicle and the information came back as "stolen." We placed Dobad under arrest...."
Replace the word "ON" (in caps) above with the word "IN" and you have a completely different situation.
Some think it's a pity that a mere typographical error can send a man to prison...
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