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Brickbat: A Little Bit of Soap

Charles Oliver | 7.20.2016 4:00 AM


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The Pennsylvania State Police has agreed to pay $195,000 to settle a wrongful imprisonment suit brought by Alexander Bernstein. Bernstein was held in jail for almost a month after a field drug test falsely showed homemade soap he was carrying in his vehicle to be cocaine.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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