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Judge
Dismisses
Charges
in
George
Singleton
Case
10/09/98
Last Friday, a judge in Craig
County, Oklahoma dismissed the case against George Singleton, a Vermont
man who was arrested while driving through the county last February.
Singleton was charged with driving under the influence of intoxicants,
when a state trooper who had pulled him over seized a bag of what he thought
was marijuana from Singleton's car. The substance turned out to be
a combination of legal herbs Singleton uses to treat his tuberculosis,
and blood samples taken from Singleton at the time of his arrest revealed
no trace of any known intoxicants. The prosecution stood by the trooper's
written report that Singleton had appeared intoxicated, but the judge dismissed
the case based on the lack of corroborating evidence. Singleton spent
25 days in an Oklahoma jail following his arrest, when he was unable to
post bail. (See http://www.drcnet.org/wol/061.html#dwd
for more background, as well as Adam Smith's editorial on the DRCNN radio
show at http://www.drcnet.org/drcnn/dl28/100298drcnn2.ram
-- Real Audio required.)
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Issue #62, 10/09/98
DRCNet Needs Your Help | Drug Crazy Goes to Second Printing | Harm Reduction Conference in Cleveland | New Law Denies Student Loans to Non-Violent Drug Offenders | Judge Dismisses Charges in George Singleton Case | Oregon Initiatives | Peter McWilliams Sues Attorney General for Failure to Enforce Prop. 215 | Editorial: Reality vs. Demagoguery
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