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WhiskeyGrinder

(24,018 posts)
Sun Dec 8, 2024, 05:21 PM Sunday

Broward Co. to vacate convictions for people who bought crack made by the Sheriff's Office

https://cbs12.com/news/local/broward-county-to-vacate-convictions-for-people-who-bought-crack-made-by-sheriffs-office-supreme-court-reverse-sting-1993-ruling-state-attorney

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (CBS12) — For three years, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office produced its own crack cocaine, so it could sell it to people that deputies would then arrest for buying crack cocaine.

It was a practice the Florida state Supreme Court repeatedly described as “outrageous” in its 1993 ruling that such reverse-stings violated an individual’s right to due process. More than 30 years later, though, a routine audit of documents found hundreds of those arrests and convictions are still on the books and part of people’s criminal records.

On Friday, the State Attorney for Broward County Harold Pryor announced his office planned to do something about that, declaring, “it is never too late to do the right thing.”

“These records may be a dim memory or an unfortunate part of history to many, but they have had a long-lasting and severe impact on the lives of the people who were arrested – as well as their families and the wider community,” Pryor added.
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Broward Co. to vacate convictions for people who bought crack made by the Sheriff's Office (Original Post) WhiskeyGrinder Sunday OP
Floriduh RandySF Sunday #1
What was wrong with this decision? Tommy Carcetti Sunday #3
Which decision? RandySF Sunday #4
Right. Tommy Carcetti Sunday #6
I don't know. Haven't heard of other LEOs manufacturing crack... brush Sunday #8
Floriduh, a sunny place for shady people Celerity Sunday #7
K&R Solly Mack Sunday #2
Yeah, sheriff crack is the worst. Drum Sunday #5
If good people aren't allowed to sell Crack then only bad people will. My motto. Wonder Why Sunday #9

Tommy Carcetti

(43,598 posts)
3. What was wrong with this decision?
Sun Dec 8, 2024, 05:45 PM
Sunday

Seems like a good call to me.

Also can we please dispense with the “Floriduh” nonsense already?

Honestly our country as a whole isn’t any better.

brush

(57,941 posts)
8. I don't know. Haven't heard of other LEOs manufacturing crack...
Sun Dec 8, 2024, 06:20 PM
Sunday

and selling it to bust buyers for buying crack.

Can't get much worse than that.

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