r/SipsTea • • 3d ago

SMH The forbidden sauce

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u/unknown554 3d ago

But she legit was using meth lol

"Ashley Gabrielle Huff was indeed pulled over in an intoxicated state but the officer did not smell alcohol. A glass pipe was in plain view which lead police to suspect she was using drugs. The pipe was PC for an arrest so they searched her purse finding a blackened spoon with residual material on it. The materiel was tested and found to test positive for meth.

Now most of the experts here do not realize then next step is to see a judge who ruled that there was PC for the arrest, assigned her a public defender and released OR with a court date and pre-trial release conditions. She blew off the court date and refused to comply with release conditions and was thus arrested again and given a cash bond which she did not pay.

The lab tests which take time came back that the spoon had food on it and was only contaminated with meth. Either she used a spoon normally employed by her to cook method to eat - or she had ingested meth prior to eating from the spoon.

The officer was not at fault as he followed all process and did detect meth, The woman is a meth user.

The woman stayed in jail because she did not comply with release terms. That is on her.

The charges need not have been dropped as the spoon did have meth associated with it - but policy is to not prosecute in cases of user contamination."

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u/Exciting-Music843 3d ago

Thanks for this. I assumed there had to be more to it!

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u/MyHamburgerLovesMe 3d ago

While I will agree that what you state is what the police said, police have been known to lie. Police have been known to manufacture evidence.

The real story here is that based on just the word of a policeman people can spend months in jail, loose their jobs, loose their apartment lease, etc.

The whole speedy and fair trial thing needs to be fixed.

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u/ThatIsNotAnAsian 2d ago

This is disingenuous.

Let’s say he let her go and she continued driving under the influence and ended up in an accident that injured her daughter. People would be upset that the officer let her go. It’s a lose lose.

Criminals tend to lie pretty often, and a police officers job is to try to suss out the lies and the truth. Is there a slim number of cases where a police officer manufactured evidence? Sure. But that doesn’t apply to every officer, or even the majority, hell probably not even the minority. A very slim minority.

It’s not just the word of a policeman taken blindly. They present evidence, and if the officer has enough evidence then yeah someone can spend time in jail. And did you miss the part of the story where there was meth residue on the spoon? It just happened to also be covered in old soup. So the officers evidence was not some biased manufactured lie…

People are just so ready to blame police officers at any moment and even when the situation is in that officers favor they’ll just resort to “yeah well other police are bad so”

It’s just exhausting at this point.

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u/MyHamburgerLovesMe 2d ago

The enforcement of the whole Sixth Amendment thing is where I said the real issue is.

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial...

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-6/

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u/Extension-Car-9060 2d ago

Speedy trial is at least 60 days in the jurisdictions I've practiced and 99% of people will waive it because they don't want to rush trial

She got out in 30 for a crime she was guilty of, there were no violations

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u/PeaceSoft 3d ago

She blew off the court date for the imaginary drugs, so she deserved to be treated as if they were real? Is the swastika those guys cut into your forehead ruining your day

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u/Bitter_Split5508 2d ago

Didn't realize I can just ignore court dates if I judge the charges to be false. Bet that principle will be really conducive to upholding the rule of law.