Arrested for meth possession. Pleas guilty to get out of jail. Crime lab confirms Chef-Boy-R-D did the cooking

I can't make them up like this.

A female passenger in a car stopped by police [for unknown reasons] had a dirty spoon. Cop arrests her for possession of meth, a felony. Our passenger denies having meth on her dirty spoon. She says it's Spaghetti-Os. Doesn't matter. Off to jail.

This is on July 2nd.

With no money for an attorney, she gets the court appointed public defender. That whole you have a right to an attorney.

Being a brilliant PD, he recommends ... pleading guilty and asking for First Offender status.

Now, I'm not an attorney but it seems pretty damn stupid to me. With the benefit of hind sight, why not demand a speedy trial? My client is innocent. You have no evidence of a crime. No reason for such a search. No probable cause. But, we don't get that. We get the plead guilty and throw yourself on the mercy of the court.

She does. She admits quilt. She gets a deferred sentence and is sent to Drug Court. Now things get so much better. Well, not so much. She must attend counseling sessions. She must report to court weekly. Submit to drug tests. Waive her Constitutional rights as if she is a felon.

And .... PAY for the counseling sessions, drug screens, and court court costs!

Let emphasize that part again. She has no money for an attorney. Pleads guilty and has to pay several hundred dollars to therapists, doctors, and court clerks.

Sounds a lot like a poor tax or that Debtors Prison.

So she misses an appointment. Is arrested again. Now her public defender has to tell her. You're screwed. You've already plead guilty and confessed. I'll work on a plea bargain.

She is sitting in jail waiting for her court date when the spoon comes back from the State Crime Lab.

That meth on the spoon? It was cooked by Chef Boyardee.

Ops says the public defender. Ops say the District Attorney. Ops says the judge. Ops says the police offender. Ops, and you're free to go. That was this Thursday. September 18th, 2014.

So from July 2nd to September 18th, an innocent but poor spaghetti lover rots in our Justice System for possession of a dirty spoon.

Yes, this happened where I live, Hall County, Georgia. The deep South.

So many questions to ask. One of them, Why was the car stopped?

No one knows because?

There's no public record of the arrest report as September 20th, 2014.