Massachusetts Chemist Expected To Plead Guilty of Faking Drug Test Results in Thousands of Cases.
I think we have a trend here. The government has the power to destroy lives on faulty/fake drug test results. And it happens way more often then we think.
Being falsley accused and arrested can ruin your life. I saw this today:
When Shannon Renee McNeal was pulled over by Ferguson police on Aug. 6, 2009, it set off an odyssey of frustration that began with more than 24 hours behind bars.
The 37-year-old Metro bus driver had been arrested on a felony drug warrant intended for another woman, Shannon Raquel McNeal, 23. The younger McNeal had been killed in a drive-by shooting on the Poplar Street Bridge seven months earlier.
The mistake was made by a deputy court clerk who clicked on the wrong “Shannon McNeal” on a computer list while creating a case file. When Shannon Raquel McNeal missed a hearing after her death, a judge issued an arrest warrant that had all of the wrong McNeal’s information on it.
The children in the car were screaming and crying, McNeal said, and she begged, “Please don’t arrest me in front of my kids.”
At the station, she again denied being the other McNeal. Her fingerprints also didn’t match. But Ferguson police told her that she would have to sort it out in St. Louis.
Late that day, McNeal was taken to the St. Louis Justice Center. Again, her fingerprints did not match, she said.
She again protested, but she said she was told to explain it to a jail caseworker.
The story of the woman falsely arrested because of a clerical error and the police ignoring the fact that her fingerprints didn’t match; another news story I read about her said she lost her job because of the arrest (she later got it back), then lost her car and had to move in with a friend because of that.
Thanks to MADD the DUI industry has become a major money maker for lawyers and the courts.
Typical DUI with no accident or injuries cost the individual a minimum of $5000 the last I heard.