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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBroward 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-attorneyFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (CBS12) For three years, the Broward County Sheriffs 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 individuals 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 peoples 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.
It was a practice the Florida state Supreme Court repeatedly described as outrageous in its 1993 ruling that such reverse-stings violated an individuals 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 peoples 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
If good people aren't allowed to sell Crack then only bad people will. My motto.
Wonder Why
Sunday
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RandySF
(70,954 posts)1. Floriduh
Tommy Carcetti
(43,598 posts)3. What was wrong with this decision?
Seems like a good call to me.
Also can we please dispense with the Floriduh nonsense already?
Honestly our country as a whole isnt any better.
RandySF
(70,954 posts)4. Which decision?
Im referring to the Sheriffs decision to make crack.
Tommy Carcetti
(43,598 posts)6. Right.
Decades ago.
And not necessarily geographically limited.
brush
(57,941 posts)8. I don't know. Haven't heard of other LEOs manufacturing crack...
and selling it to bust buyers for buying crack.
Can't get much worse than that.
Celerity
(46,541 posts)7. Floriduh, a sunny place for shady people
Solly Mack
(93,053 posts)2. K&R
Drum
(9,859 posts)5. Yeah, sheriff crack is the worst.
Wonder Why
(4,646 posts)9. If good people aren't allowed to sell Crack then only bad people will. My motto.