[wideawake]

A stupid mistake by law enforcement that was amplified by her failure to get an attorney the second she was taken into custody on the warrant.

Instead, she apparently had her boyfriend phoning the sherriff.

She would have spent only a night in jail if she had behaved logically.

[Post-Neolithic]

"A stupid mistake by law enforcement that was amplified by her failure to get an attorney the second she was taken into custody on the warrant."

Not everyone has a 2k retainer for a criminal defense attorney. Have you also succumbed to the "Blame the victim" mentality?

[longtermmemmory]

actually it is more incidious than that.

Since she was in custody for the OTHER woman’s crime, the court records would show the OTHER woman’s attorney OR WORSE public defender.

This woman was arrested for an outstanding warrent.

If he demanded she have a public defender, the public defender would treat her as the other woman and possibly tell him they can not help due to the conflic of interest and a special appointment would happen at the hearing to deal with the underlying case.

He could demand she have an attorney and the dolts at the records department would assume the old attorney WAS notified!

[MortMan]

From your post:A stupid mistake by law enforcement that was amplified by her failure to get an attorney the second she was taken into custody on the warrant.

From the article: Sellers, who had not committed any crimes, said she was taken into custody and immediately thrown into the inmate population.

"When I found out, I got no first appearance and I (didn't get) to see a judge," Sellers said. "They put me into population."

If the accused is immediately committed to prison (in population), how can the failure to immediately get a lawyer be blamed on her? Obviously, there is likely much more to the story, but no court appearance is pretty egregious, and beyond the control of the prisoner.