“On October 21, 2012 Sergeant William Butler and Officer Samantha Brown stopped a car in the 2000 block of East Street for failure to yield the right of way to a pedestrian. In the course of the car stop it was determined the driver was Jeffery Cox. According to the DMV registration information, Mr. Cox owned the car. Sitting in the car front passenger seat was Amanda Watson. When the officers checked on any outstanding warrants on the occupants of the vehicle, they received a positive response on Ms. Watson. Police arrested her based on an outstanding arrest warrant for misdemeanor shoplifting. When Ms. Watson was ordered out of the vehicle to be handcuffed Sgt. Butler noticed a plastic bag of a substance he suspected to be crack cocaine lying on the front seat where Watson had been sitting. Incident to the arrest on the warrant, Sgt. Brown searched Ms. Watson and found $650 in small denomination bills but no devices with which to ingest crack cocaine.”
“The plastic bag recovered from the car seat contained seven separate plastic bags containing off-white material, which field-tested positive for crack cocaine. In light of the proximity of the bags of cocaine to Ms. Watson, she was charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance with Intent to Distribute, a felony. As the owner and operator of the vehicle, Jeffery Cox was arrested and charged with the same felony. A search of his person after the arrest revealed $1,450 in cash and several small empty plastic bags with a powder residue that field-tested positive for cocaine.”
In order to understand how the criminal justice system will handle or process this crime it is imperative that one understands how the criminal justice system looks at procession of a controlled...
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...all aspects of court systems. I believe that our criminal justice system could improve in some ways but I also believe that we have a great system in place.
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...to him like he asked and then went back to lay down. But what the woman didn’t know was that this “so called friend” was actually an undercover cop who was recording the entire thing with a hidden camera. A few days later she was arrested and showed the tape before being charged as an accomplice to selling drugs. This woman didn’t even know what was in the bag or that her boyfriend was selling drugs in her house, but she was sent to prison to serve time. The sad part is, her boyfriend who actually sold the drugs was never arrested, and he walked free from the whole thing. This woman was a nonviolent first time offender and unnecessarily sent to prison. For cases such as these, women should not have to be imprisoned. This is one of those times where an alternative should have been more reasonable, if and only if, the judge found that the woman just has to serve time.
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