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A friend of mine was having something like a psychotic episode and a 911 call was made in the hopes that some kind of medical assistance would show up. Instead, the police came, thought he was "high as a kite", they used force to take him down, and he was arrested. Once they got him in the cruiser they took him to the hospital to screen him for drugs. The drug screen of course came up clean, because there were not any drugs in his system, but shortly after he was brought down to the jail and charged with resisting arrest, which is a felony, along with illegal use of narcotics. He was bailed out, but now has to go to court.
What are the odds that he will be convicted of either of those charges given the circumstances? It seems to me like the police don't have a case, but I really don't know how these things usually go. It seems totally bogus that the police even got involved when it was clearly a medical emergency; this is the sort of thing that makes people avoid calling 911, even when it really is an emergency.
What are the odds that he will be convicted of either of those charges given the circumstances? It seems to me like the police don't have a case, but I really don't know how these things usually go. It seems totally bogus that the police even got involved when it was clearly a medical emergency; this is the sort of thing that makes people avoid calling 911, even when it really is an emergency.