At 6:06 PM -0700 10/29/97, Jim Choate wrote:
MAN SPENDS 6 WEEKS IN JAIL AFTER VITAMINS MISTAKEN FOR HEROIN
October 29, 1997 Web posted at: 7:21 p.m. EST (0021 GMT)
NORTH CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) -- For six weeks, Malvin Marshall sat in jail because police thought he was carrying heroin in his pocket. Police didn't believe him when he said it was mushy vitamins.
On Monday, the charges were dropped. Lab tests showed he was carrying mushy vitamins.
And he doesn't stand a chance of suing them successfully. No wonder some people support Assassination Politics. (Personally, were I to be arrested and held on such false charges, I'd consider it necessary to kill those who illegally held me. Preferably from a safe distance, with a sniper rifle. But then I'm a right wing libertarian whacko.) --Tim May The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^2,976,221 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."