I once had some loose sweet tarts in a ziploc bag after the wrapper got wet. Cops pulled driver over for no seatbelt, make up an excuse about it smelling like weed, search the car, find the sweet tarts, claim they're drugs, field test them using a kit in their car, and said they came back positive for cocaine. I was in jail for a few hours on vacation before I got bailed out and I had to fly back down to fight it in court. Of course they took all of the remaining sweet tarts and conveniently lost them so it was basically their word against mine.
From the judge's perspective them losing all the evidence should be grounds to throw out the case and investigate the precinct for either incompetence or corruption.
Mass spectrometry can do insane stuff and the other thing is that nearly every single note of cash is contaminated with coke… hence, someone who wants to frame a person can easily find ‘evidence’ that the person is possessing it despite just holding a regular banknote
Do you think they disappeared the evidence because they knew they were wrong? Or did some cop try crushing and snorting sweet tarts and have a disappointing day?
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