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Heart-shaped candy led to man’s drug arrest, New Jersey suit says. He’s suing police
Yahoo ^ | October 3, 2022 | Julia Marnin

Posted on 10/04/2022 1:30:12 PM PDT by grundle

After bags of heart-shaped Valentine’s Day candy found inside a man’s car led to his arrest on a drug charge, he decided to sue police in New Jersey, according to a federal lawsuit.

Fernando Saint-Jean, of Massachusetts, says he was “falsely charged” with possession of MDMA/ecstasy after officers found the candy inside his car during a traffic stop in New Jersey, court documents state.

However, lab test results proved that the pastel-colored candy, commonly found in stores around Valentine’s Day, did not contain illegal substances more than two months after Palisades Interstate Parkway Police officers arrested Saint-Jean in May 2018, court documents state.

After the heart-shaped objects were lab tested over two months later, the truth came out: they were just candies,” the appeals court’s opinion states. “Even with that knowledge, it still took nearly four additional months to drop the charges against the driver.”

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: donutwatch; falsearrest; injustice; warondrugs
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1 posted on 10/04/2022 1:30:12 PM PDT by grundle
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Police state. “Feel” safe yet?


2 posted on 10/04/2022 1:33:20 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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3 posted on 10/04/2022 1:36:35 PM PDT by DannyTN
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I bet to this day the cops swear it was a dry run test with candy before the ACTUAL run with the dope, or something that crazy.


4 posted on 10/04/2022 1:36:53 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: grundle
Maybe they should have called the FBI to raid the guy's safe deposit box at the bank..... they're happy to do that! .... /sarc

https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-accused-misleading-judge-for-86m-safety-deposit-box-raid-2022-9?fbclid=IwAR0s9Uj3VHoYJE7D5ZD97Z_IwSRWe_I8frx8AI1UXrwZDVEz5Q8yYiUMHRw

5 posted on 10/04/2022 1:40:33 PM PDT by high info voter (Delivery )
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To: grundle

He’s looking for a sweet payout.


6 posted on 10/04/2022 1:46:04 PM PDT by dblshot
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You have no heart!


7 posted on 10/04/2022 1:47:18 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: dblshot

“he’s looking for a sweet payout”. I think there should be some compensation for six months of illegal imprisonment. If you got locked up for six months, I’m sure you’d just laugh it off.


8 posted on 10/04/2022 1:50:53 PM PDT by ozarker
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To: WKUHilltopper

I abhor drugs and druggies.

I am particularly angry that a giant police state — which is commonly misused — has arisen because of the war on drugs.

That police state — as we see with routine abuses by the FBI and the like — is far more dangerous than druggies are to others.

We need to admit defeat and dismantle the police state and let idiots go die of drug overdoses. I just don’t care at this point.


9 posted on 10/04/2022 1:52:48 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: grundle

It is case like this that should prompt the Supreme Court to Overturn their Legal Fiction they created out of thin air called “qualified immunity”


10 posted on 10/04/2022 1:55:33 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: Jewbacca

Executing drug traffickers works for me, too.


11 posted on 10/04/2022 1:57:16 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: ozarker

I agree. The additional 4 months they drug their feet is especially egregious.


12 posted on 10/04/2022 2:22:23 PM PDT by mykroar (Democrats support both types of allowed thought: Marxist and Leninist.)
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To: grundle

Incredible... If they had any doubt at all this should have never happened. Self proclaimed Geniuses again.


13 posted on 10/04/2022 2:22:39 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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We need to admit defeat and dismantle the police state and let idiots go die of drug overdoses. I just don’t care at this point.

The problem with that is; more druggies means more crime to pay for those drugs. If they could just stay home and die then, OK, but, it just won't work that way.

14 posted on 10/04/2022 2:23:12 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐Public hangings will wake 'em up.⭐⭐)
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To: eyeamok

Along with the one called “Absolute immunity”.

I like #5 of the Code of Hammurabi:

5. If a judge try a case, reach a decision, and present his judgment in writing; if later error shall appear in his decision, and it be through his own fault, then he shall pay twelve times the fine set by him in the case, and he shall be publicly removed from the judge’s bench, and never again shall he sit there to render judgement.


15 posted on 10/04/2022 2:25:48 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: grundle
If you ever hear an outcome on this heart-stopping piece of news, please post it and ping me, LOL.

Leni

16 posted on 10/04/2022 2:31:27 PM PDT by MinuteGal ( MAGA !...............MAGA !................MAGA !)
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“The officers filed a notice of appeal to challenge the District Court’s denial of qualified immunity under federal and New Jersey law. But before the officers appealed, the driver had amended his complaint,” the court wrote. “Due to that prior amendment, the District Court’s order was not final when the officers appealed.”

This is even more incredible... They appealed it? lol


17 posted on 10/04/2022 2:37:13 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

What has the drug war done to reduce drug addiction?


18 posted on 10/04/2022 2:38:54 PM PDT by Ken H (Trump /DeSantis)
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What has the drug war done to reduce drug addiction?

Take away all restrictions and find out.

19 posted on 10/04/2022 2:40:43 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐Public hangings will wake 'em up.⭐⭐)
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To: grundle

So in addition to guns and cash being effectively illegal the cops are now cracking down on candy.

Now they can do civil asset forfeiture on $100,000 bars because they’re cash AND candy!!!!


20 posted on 10/04/2022 2:56:03 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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