[ikeboy]

If you're going to change the system, which you need to do to make it possible to bring charges in a case like this, the other changes I suggested would be more effective and harder to weaponize.

The core problem here is that the system allowed an innocent person to stay in jail. That needs to be fixed on a system level, not by trying to punish people after the fact for bad outcomes.

[ceejayoz]

> The core problem here is that the system allowed an innocent person to stay in jail.

No; the system got the innocent person out of jail and a hefty settlement for their trouble. The system is now, unfortunately, allowing the guilty parties to stay employed as cops after performing a kidnapping.

> That needs to be fixed on a system level, not by trying to punish people after the fact for bad outcomes.

An accidental positive on a drug test is a bad outcome.

Locking someone up for more than a month because they posted a photo of the President and a quote he actually said is a crime.

[ikeboy]

See I don't view the guy getting out after 37 days as a success. It's a failure but it could have been worse.

I also think every party involved in that failure should be fired and rendered unemployable in the field.

[kyleee]

You may want to explain a bit better, as stated it sounds like you’d prefer he’d still be in jail: “ See I don't view the guy getting out after 37 days as a success”

[ikeboy]

The case shouldn't have been brought, but even if brought he should have had a prompt bond hearing and been let out within 24 hours.

[kyleee]

I do agree

[SpicyLemonZest]

What could a systemic solution to this possibly look like? He didn't stay in jail for 37 days because the system left no room for any other possible outcome. There were a number of points at which he could have been released had the system worked correctly. But Sheriff Nick Weems, an official in a key position of authority administrating the local justice system, decided that he'd like to subvert the system and steal this man's freedom. So he used his authority and expertise to ensure the system did not work correctly.

[ikeboy]

The magistrate judge should not have approved the warrant. They should have had a bail hearing within 24 hours, at which it would have been clear that they posed no threat.

Instead somehow bail was set at $2 million and the hearing to reduce bail was delayed.

Those are flaws in the system that should be fixed, and will continue harming people even without bad faith from sheriffs.