In Baltimore, the jury through out the charge that the police illegally arrested the fellow who subsequently died of a severed spinal column, because his knife wasn’t illegal under Maryland law. As a result, the arrest was good, and it became very difficult to make any other charge stick.
Wait, the arrest was good because the knife WASN’T illegal? Aruh?
Hard to make sense of your sentence. “Threw” rather than through and “because his knife wasn’t illegal,” (a double negative to confuse,) the arrest was good?