{"id":4395,"date":"2005-06-08T09:29:12","date_gmt":"2005-06-08T13:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4395.html"},"modified":"2005-06-08T09:29:12","modified_gmt":"2005-06-08T13:29:12","slug":"there-may-be-a-war-on-drugs-but-this-is-ridiculous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/there-may-be-a-war-on-drugs-but-this-is-ridiculous\/","title":{"rendered":"There may be a ‘war on drugs,’ but this is ridiculous"},"content":{"rendered":"

I realize that prosecutors have grown overzealous about going after drug users, but this story<\/a>, brought to my attention by Carpetbagger regular PWalker, shows that sometimes a district attorney’s office can go a little too far.<\/p>\n

Jason Warner was killed last fall, but that didn’t stop Fulton County prosecutors from bringing drug charges against the Atlanta man this spring.<\/p>\n

“Judge, I think he’s dead,” a probation officer said when Warner’s marijuana possession case was called before Judge Alford Dempsey last week.<\/p>\n

Dempsey shook his head and said, “I guess we’re indicting the dead now.”<\/p>\n

The judge ordered the case “dead docketed,” a legal status akin to being in permanent limbo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For all the talk from conservatives about taxing the dead through estate taxes, it’s a shame there isn’t more concern about prosecuting the dead. I guess “death indictments” doesn’t have the same flair as “death tax.”<\/p>\n

“When you start indicting dead people, it would indicate to me the power is not being used prudently,” [Mike Mears, director of the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council] said. “That certainly indicates there’s been a lack of attention to the people. It’s out of control.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I realize that prosecutors have grown overzealous about going after drug users, but this story, brought to my attention by Carpetbagger regular PWalker, shows that sometimes a district attorney’s office can go a little too far. Jason Warner was killed last fall, but that didn’t stop Fulton County prosecutors from bringing drug charges against the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}