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MrMallard
06/30/19 11:07:21 AM
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https://thefreethoughtproject.com/charges-dropped-for-119-people-after-cop-caught-on-video-planting-meth-on-innocent-grandma/

Jackson County, FL Dozens of innocent people who were rotting in jail have been freed and their charges erased after the corrupt cop who put them there was caught on his own body camera planting meth on an innocent mother. Jackson County Sheriffs Deputy Zachary Wester has since been fired and a slew of lawsuits are now rolling in.

Westers fall from law enforcement grace and the 119 people who were exonerated are due largely in part to the diligence of a single person, assistant state attorney at the 14th Judicial Circuit, Christina Pumphrey.

Pumphreys job as assistant state attorney included reviewing evidence before moving forward with charges against individuals. When she began reviewing cases, she found something very peculiar.

This is an exaggeration, but it felt like his (Westers) name was on half the cases, Pumphrey told The Appeal. It was seriously disproportionate.

When Pumphrey began watching the body camera footage from Westers arrests, she found something even more disturbing. Many times, Wester was seen conducting illegal searches. Also, his written affidavits did not match what she watched in the videos. But that wasnt the most telling aspect of all these videos.

While it is no question that folks will claim that drugs found on them or in their possession arent theirs and they dont know how that got there, nearly all of Westers cases had this. The videos showed that people were utterly shocked when Wester claimed to have found drugs in their vehicles. While a single person may have been lying, when everyone reacts the exact same way, something is up.

Although she reviewed multiple videos, Pumphrey never saw the actual act of Wester planting drugs or otherwise hiding them. However, all that changed when Wester pulled over Teresa Odom in February of 2018.

In that video, Wester pulls Odom over, claiming her tail lights arent working. However, it would later be revealed that her tail lights were, in fact, working fine and Wester had targeted her to frame her.

In the video, Wester is extremely nice to the woman, complimenting her, joking around, and making small talk. But in the back of his mind, he knew the entire time that he was going to plant meth on her and have her thrown in a cagean insidious move indeed.

After threatening to have a K-9 come search her car, Wester tells Odom that she can avoid the K-9 if she just lets him search her truck himselfa huge mistake.

As the body camera shows, Wester opens the door to Odoms truck and is cupping a small baggie with a white powder in it.

Wester would plant the substance under a red towel in her truck and then pretend to find it later. Odom would then be arrested and thrown in a cage so this officer could make himself look like a hero.

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MrMallard
06/30/19 11:07:45 AM
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After Pumphrey began to raise red flags in her department pointing out videos like Odoms, she says the system began to go after her.

As The Appeal reports:

Internally, however, Pumphrey said the chief assistant state attorney, Larry Basford, chastised her for sharing the videos with the sheriffs office. He starts yelling over the phone. What was I doing looking through all the videos? Why in the world did I find the Teresa Odom video? Why was I looking for it? And just having an absolute fit. Basford did not respond to comment on Pumphreys characterization of this conversation. Pumphrey turned in her resignation the following day. She filed a whistleblower complaint, but later dropped it because she said she didnt want it to affect her ability to represent her clients at her new state job in public defense at the Office of Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel for the First DCA Region of Florida.

Apparently, it wasnt just Wester who had an interest in locking up innocent people.

The state attorneys office was just as bad and just as guilty as Zach Wester when we found this out and were not dropping these cases immediately, in my mind, Pumphrey said. When it was ignorance it was one thing, but as soon as we know there are innocent people sitting in jail and we dont drop the charges, were as guilty as he is.

Although Wester was fired after Pumphrey exposed him, the state has yet to bring any charges against him, claiming they are still looking into it.

Also, although these 119 people were vindicated, and a possible 30 more could be, they still face challenges from being framed.

People still had consequences. It wasnt like this was just all erased, Pumphrey said. Dropped charges still remain on a persons criminal record. And even though the charges got dropped, there were people sitting in jail for six months on no bond because of this case. Or youve got people who have to spend money on supervision fees; they have to spend money paying for their own urine analysis test; theyve done community service hours; they paid cost of bond like $1,500. Youre not getting back six months of your life. Or youre not getting back the job that you lost because you sat in jail for a week before your girlfriend could get the bond money.

The next time someone tells you that obeying the law will keep you out of trouble with police, show them this article. A single cop had over 100 victims.

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King_Hellebuyck
06/30/19 11:10:29 AM
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What a fucking scumbag. Always makes you wonder how many people are locked up due to cop bullshit like this.
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ScazarMeltex
06/30/19 11:10:33 AM
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What? The police doing unethical and illegal things? Who would have imagined?
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EnragedSlith
06/30/19 11:13:33 AM
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People give police shit because they think theres all this lenience, but I knew a guy who got his entire law enforcement career tanked because he lied about losing his hat. The moment you cast the slightest bit of doubt into your honesty and integrity, every case youve ever been involved in can go up in smoke. This guy just destroyed every legitimate bust hed ever potentially made.
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CommonStar
06/30/19 11:16:51 AM
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This guy should get life in prison. It's beyond unethical and just think about the lives he's may have ruined by planting evidence.
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Thompson
06/30/19 11:18:01 AM
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Sigh, Florida.
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codey
06/30/19 11:21:16 AM
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One of the shitty things is that he probably got a lot of people that were guilty put away and because he was a criminal asshole, now these criminals are walking free. So not only did he ruin innocent lives when he wasn't getting caught, but now that he has been he's freed guilty people too.
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Hanky_Bannister
06/30/19 11:22:18 AM
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How is this fucking pig not in fucking jail?
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StucklnMyPants
06/30/19 11:24:58 AM
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He needs the death penalty tbqh.
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Feline_Heart
06/30/19 11:30:48 AM
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StucklnMyPants posted...
He needs the death penalty tbqh.

That seems extreme. Life in prison would be enough of a punishment
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Hanky_Bannister
06/30/19 11:34:41 AM
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Feline_Heart posted...
StucklnMyPants posted...
He needs the death penalty tbqh.

That seems extreme. Life in prison would be enough of a punishment

A better punishment
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Umbreon
06/30/19 11:40:47 AM
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MrMallard posted...
After Pumphrey began to raise red flags in her department pointing out videos like Odoms, she says the system began to go after her.


And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why the bad cops thrive. When the system itself punishes you for doing good, many people so nothing instead. You know the saying about evil and doing nothing.

Wouldn't be surprised if this person faces further hostility because they caught this rat bastard. Still, they did a good thing.
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The Admiral
06/30/19 11:41:31 AM
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Cop should be sentenced to whatever the collective sentences would have been for those 119 prisoners.
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Garioshi
06/30/19 11:42:34 AM
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codey posted...
One of the shitty things is that he probably got a lot of people that were guilty put away and because he was a criminal asshole, now these criminals are walking free. So not only did he ruin innocent lives when he wasn't getting caught, but now that he has been he's freed guilty people too.

This may be the worst take of all time
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The Admiral
06/30/19 11:44:17 AM
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Garioshi posted...
codey posted...
One of the shitty things is that he probably got a lot of people that were guilty put away and because he was a criminal asshole, now these criminals are walking free. So not only did he ruin innocent lives when he wasn't getting caught, but now that he has been he's freed guilty people too.

This may be the worst take of all time


Yeah, I actually agree with you for a change. Non-violent drug offenders being released really is not some danger to society. It's incredibly fucked up that drug use is handled by the criminal justice system in the first place.
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King_Hellebuyck
06/30/19 11:49:00 AM
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The Admiral posted...
Garioshi posted...
codey posted...
One of the shitty things is that he probably got a lot of people that were guilty put away and because he was a criminal asshole, now these criminals are walking free. So not only did he ruin innocent lives when he wasn't getting caught, but now that he has been he's freed guilty people too.

This may be the worst take of all time


Yeah, I actually agree with you for a change. Non-violent drug offenders being released really is not some danger to society. It's incredibly fucked up that drug use is handled by the criminal justice system in the first place.

Amen to that
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K181
06/30/19 11:50:47 AM
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Even by Florida's standard, wow.
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teepan95
06/30/19 11:51:39 AM
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The Admiral posted...
Cop should be sentenced to whatever the collective sentences would have been for those 119 prisoners.

This
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Fossil
06/30/19 11:54:51 AM
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Anyone this corrupt and evil deserves the death penalty.
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Knowledge_King
06/30/19 12:06:31 PM
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Death penalty
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Iron-Tarkus
06/30/19 12:18:50 PM
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Oink
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codey
06/30/19 12:20:46 PM
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The Admiral posted...
Garioshi posted...
codey posted...
One of the shitty things is that he probably got a lot of people that were guilty put away and because he was a criminal asshole, now these criminals are walking free. So not only did he ruin innocent lives when he wasn't getting caught, but now that he has been he's freed guilty people too.

This may be the worst take of all time


Yeah, I actually agree with you for a change. Non-violent drug offenders being released really is not some danger to society. It's incredibly fucked up that drug use is handled by the criminal justice system in the first place.


Oh I agree. But not everyone in jail because of this guy is going to be a non-violent drug offender. Just because he was crooked as fuck doesn't mean he didn't help get guys that should be in jail thrown in jail.
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K181
06/30/19 12:22:07 PM
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codey posted...
The Admiral posted...
Garioshi posted...
codey posted...
One of the shitty things is that he probably got a lot of people that were guilty put away and because he was a criminal asshole, now these criminals are walking free. So not only did he ruin innocent lives when he wasn't getting caught, but now that he has been he's freed guilty people too.

This may be the worst take of all time


Yeah, I actually agree with you for a change. Non-violent drug offenders being released really is not some danger to society. It's incredibly fucked up that drug use is handled by the criminal justice system in the first place.


Oh I agree. But not everyone in jail because of this guy is going to be a non-violent drug offender. Just because he was crooked as fuck doesn't mean he didn't help get guys that should be in jail thrown in jail.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_ratio
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Shablagoo
06/30/19 12:22:41 PM
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King_Hellebuyck posted...
What a fucking scumbag. Always makes you wonder how many people are locked up due to cop bullshit like this.

A lot
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Notti
06/30/19 12:22:49 PM
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El Mexicano Texano
06/30/19 12:23:42 PM
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Let him receive all 119 charges at once this includes time in jail and fines.
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Hanky_Bannister
06/30/19 12:23:57 PM
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Notti posted...
Police cameras work.

he was so arrogant he didnt even care
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Shablagoo
06/30/19 12:24:25 PM
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K181 posted...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_ratio

Oh cool, I didnt realize there was an official term for this.
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ScionTC_07
06/30/19 12:38:29 PM
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more proof of why i dont trust the police
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SauI_Goodman
06/30/19 12:39:16 PM
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lol he pulled that spoon right out his pocket. how much of a dumbass do you have to be knowing you're on camera. and he thought he was being clever with the camera angles trying to hide shit.
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TheVipaGTS
06/30/19 12:44:37 PM
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nah guys he's a cop and therefore can't make mistakes. i'm sure he had a very good reason for planting those drugs. lets wait for all the facts.
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kingdrake2
06/30/19 12:48:47 PM
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TheVipaGTS posted...
nah guys he's a cop and therefore can't make mistakes. i'm sure he had a very good reason for planting those drugs. lets wait for all the facts.


fuck that. he ruined peoples lives all 120 of em it's jobs, time and money they can't get back.
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iron jojo
06/30/19 12:48:53 PM
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MrMallard posted...
119 people who were exonerated are due largely in part to the diligence of a single person, assistant state attorney at the 14th Judicial Circuit, Christina Pumphrey.

Give this woman her own task force nationwide.
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sktgamer_13dude
06/30/19 12:50:21 PM
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kingdrake2 posted...
TheVipaGTS posted...
nah guys he's a cop and therefore can't make mistakes. i'm sure he had a very good reason for planting those drugs. lets wait for all the facts.


fuck that. he ruined peoples lives all 120 of em it's jobs, time and money they can't get back.

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TheBiggerWiggle
06/30/19 12:58:06 PM
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That piece of human shit should lose everything he owns and it should divided among his victims. He then needs to spend the rest of his life in jail getting the fuck beaten out of him every single day.
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Pogo_Marimo
06/30/19 1:01:55 PM
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King_Hellebuyck posted...
The Admiral posted...
Garioshi posted...
codey posted...
One of the shitty things is that he probably got a lot of people that were guilty put away and because he was a criminal asshole, now these criminals are walking free. So not only did he ruin innocent lives when he wasn't getting caught, but now that he has been he's freed guilty people too.

This may be the worst take of all time


Yeah, I actually agree with you for a change. Non-violent drug offenders being released really is not some danger to society. It's incredibly fucked up that drug use is handled by the criminal justice system in the first place.

Amen to that

Yeah. The sub-text of the whole story is still "Good lord, our criminal justice system literally has no idea how to properly help people with drug addiction".
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thronedfire2
06/30/19 1:15:04 PM
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Im sure hell just retire with full pension
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MrMallard
07/01/19 1:43:43 AM
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thronedfire2 posted...
Im sure hell just retire with full pension

Apparently the dude got fired, at least. He deserves more punishment than that, but I think it's safe to say - at least, I hope it's safe to say - that he won't be getting his pension for putting dozens upon dozens of people in jail for fraudulent drug charges.
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07/01/19 1:49:23 AM
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Shablagoo
07/01/19 11:21:12 AM
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MrMallard posted...
thronedfire2 posted...
Im sure hell just retire with full pension

Apparently the dude got fired, at least. He deserves more punishment than that, but I think it's safe to say - at least, I hope it's safe to say - that he won't be getting his pension for putting dozens upon dozens of people in jail for fraudulent drug charges.

Unfortunately I dont think its safe to say that at all.
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eston
07/01/19 11:23:48 AM
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Notti posted...
Police cameras work.

Only if someone bothers to watch them. This whole case only blew up because of one person who got suspicious that the same officer was on so many arrests. That's a total fluke
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Smashingpmkns
07/01/19 11:24:02 AM
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Lol and people were criticizing me in another thread here for saying I never allow cops to search my shit.
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Musourenka
07/01/19 11:25:09 AM
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There needs to be investigations into the state attorney's office, too. They sound negligent here at the very minimum.
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Shablagoo
07/01/19 11:30:51 AM
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Smashingpmkns posted...
Lol and people were criticizing me in another thread here for saying I never allow cops to search my shit.

In my experience they just search anyway
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Ving_Rhames
07/01/19 11:36:29 AM
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I genuinely dont think hell get even close to a worthy punishment.
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AceMos
07/01/19 11:45:20 AM
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Pogo_Marimo posted...
Yeah. The sub-text of the whole story is still "Good lord, our criminal justice system literally has no idea how to properly help people with drug addiction".


indeed this is our justice system for drugs

are you rich and white then you can do hard core drugs and wind up hurting or even killing people and you will get to go to rehab where you have beautiful people take care of your every need for a few months but a couple times you talk to a person and go "oh uh yea im sorry or wtv"

if your not then you get to rot in jail for years and years even if all you did is smoke a bit of pot
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