Sounds like Durham, where they handed out blank warrants to the police, to fill out whenever they wanted, for whatever they wanted. And (presumably) took payoffs to get people out of such crimes as rape. (Maybe they were trying that again recentlY? Maybe the lacrosse players should just have payed up?)
And low bonds for violent crimes are notorious in Durham.
Oh -- so then Elloie knowingly signed the forms with disappearing ink? The local news media portrayed him as just an idiot.
Years later he was in an issue of News Of The Weird -- I don't remember what the decision was exactly.