To be fair most chemistry students experimenting with explosive materials never intend to blow anything up.
I can understand why they might have thought he was operating a meth lab, aside from the lack of output of meth, or any connection to meth dealers, or was in fact being bankrolled by a local meth corporation or anything like that.
What I can't understand is then taking the view that he has to be imprisoned anyway, and trying to stick him with a charge that requires intent, and thus isn't exactly hard to get out of.
As forms of petty police harassment go, it's a very expensive and pointless one.
Not pointless: "If we can convict him of *anything*, we can pretty much torpedo any lawsuit he might bring against us. And even if we can't, just the fact that we charged him can help us."
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james_davis_nicoll) wrote2008-12-28 11:30 pm
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I can understand why they might have thought he was operating a meth lab, aside from the lack of output of meth, or any connection to meth dealers, or was in fact being bankrolled by a local meth corporation or anything like that.
What I can't understand is then taking the view that he has to be imprisoned anyway, and trying to stick him with a charge that requires intent, and thus isn't exactly hard to get out of.
As forms of petty police harassment go, it's a very expensive and pointless one.
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