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(Javonnie McCoy and Atlanta attorney Catherine Bernard after his acquittal) Javonnie McCoy was growing marijuana when the cops came to his Middle Georgia home. He was caught red-handed with it. Almost a pound of it, in fact. He admitted it to police, and later he looked jurors in the eye and said, yep, it was mine. I used it as medicine. The jurors let him go. He was minding his own business and wasn’t hurting anybody, they reasoned. He just doesn’t belong in prison. The jury’s decision earlier this month in Dublin, Ga., may have been due to a...

Javonnie McCoy was growing marijuana when the cops came to his Middle Georgia home. He was caught red-handed with it. Almost a pound of it, in fact. He admitted it to police, and later he looked jurors in the eye and said, yep, it was mine. I used it as medicine. The jurors let him go. He was minding his own business and wasn’t hurting anybody, they reasoned. He just doesn’t belong in prison. The jury’s decision earlier this month in Dublin, Ga., may have been due to a muddled prosecution of a muddy case. Or it may have been...

By Ty Beaver, Tri-City Herald Owners of a Pasco poppy farm were arrested this week after one of them sold poppy seed pods, which contain narcotic substances, to undercover detectives for brewing tea to obtain a high.

A Brooklyn woman went dough-nuts, throwing a cup of steaming hot chocolate in the face of a Dunkin' Donuts counter clerk after he failed to top the drink with whipped cream..........Crazed customer Jasmine Aly, 29, was whipped into such a frenzy about the beverage oversight that she also scratched the worker's face and then ripped the door off a refrigerator and hit him in the head with it. The cocoa imbroglio started at about 6 a.m. Wednesday, when Aly, who has a history of drug and prostitution arrests, entered the Dunkin' Donuts.... She ordered a bagel with cream cheese and...