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Jailed 96 days on bogus charge: It is no one's fault?
Pulled over for traffic violations, Jessica Jauch was held for 96 days in a Mississippi jail without seeing a judge, getting a lawyer or having a chance to make bail. She was charged with a felony based on a secretly recorded video that prosecutors finally acknowledged showed her committing no crime. Only when she finally got a hearing and a lawyer, who persuaded prosecutors to watch the video, did the case fall apart.
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It is someone's fault, but it's someone who's not going to pay for it.
Wow. I was not aware that a felony indictment meant the loss of one's civil rights. That's pretty scary. I mean, I've known for a long time that "innocent until proven guilty" is nothing more than a platitude, but this takes the erosion of our civil rights to a whole new level.