{"id":22995,"date":"2016-07-17T09:01:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T14:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22995"},"modified":"2016-07-17T09:01:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T14:01:46","slug":"houston-chronicle-298-wrongful-drug-convictions-identified-in-ongoing-audit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22995","title":{"rendered":"Houston Chronicle: 298 wrongful drug convictions identified in ongoing audit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Chronicle: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/houston\/article\/298-wrongful-drug-convictions-identified-in-8382474.php\">298 wrongful drug convictions identified in ongoing audit<\/a> by Lise Olsen and Anita Hassan:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In all 298 cases, prosecutors accepted both felony and misdemeanor plea deals before lab tests were performed. The $2 roadside tests, which officers use to help establish probable cause for an arrest, cannot be used at trial as evidence under Texas law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Chronicle: 298 wrongful drug convictions identified in ongoing audit by Lise Olsen and Anita Hassan: In all 298 cases, prosecutors accepted both felony and misdemeanor plea deals before lab tests were performed. The $2 roadside tests, which officers use &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22995\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22996,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22995\/revisions\/22996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}