Brickbat: One Letter Off

The district attorney's office in Cobb County, Georgia, admitted a critical error led to the wrongful arrest of 83-year-old Alice Cordell in Bartow County, where she spent six hours in a holding cell for a crime she didn't commit. Cordell's family told a local TV station they are now working to remove her mugshot from crime watch pages on social media. District Attorney Connie Allen says the name on the drug trafficking indictment should have been Alica Cordell. Allen said the mistake happened under her predecessor and, she says she is revising processes to prevent future mistakes and seeking to have Cordell's name removed from the case.
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In the future, in odor for morons to be enabled to administer The Law, we will have computers and AI name us at birth using the codes that are used to generate "secure passwords". Unique and strong! THAT will eliminate confusion!
When I am reincarnated, I look forward to being named 345&_BR549~27beXtraGOOG_now!
Here's your receipt for your husband, Mrs. Tuttle.
Yup. Good reference!
SIX HOURS!!???!
They don't take seriously the authority given to them.
And now because this whiny gran couldn't do a few more hours, Alica Cordell is tipped off and probably on the lamb. So we are charging Alice with obstruction and aiding and abetting.
Lam, not lamb
Either tell us where she is or get charged with obstruction.
No kink shaming, this is a safe space.
ONly someone with a GED would say on the LAMB!!!!!
The correct phrase is "on the lam". It means someone is trying to escape or hide, usually from the police. "On the lamb" is a common mishearing of the phrase. "Lamb" is a young sheep, and the phrase has nothing to do with animals
What in tinted Hell could on the LAMB mean??????
Dear Orange Leader could sheepishly tell ye FOR SURE! For sure, He knows how to be hard "On" Queen Spermy Daniels, so He would ALSO be PervFectly familiar with HOW to be hard "on" a baby sheep!
Besides the one-letter name difference, what else differentiates Alica and Alice? Height/weight? Age? Race? Gender?
But since our bestest Supreme Court justice can't recognize a "woman", perhaps we have to give the local cops a break.
How does a DA "seek" to have someone's name removed from a case? The DA removes the name from the case.
More due process, bro.
From a story about this (not the geo limited link)
“ Mr Cordell said the Cobb County district attorney’s office refused to speak with him without a lawyer”
How helpful
Do suspects get the same? Ie wont be questioned without a lawyer present
This is what happens when you outsource your critical thinking and judgment to computer machines.
Good to know no journalist anywhere ever got anything wrong.
These stories are fine when there is irreparable harm or systemic and unchanging abuse but this looks like a fucking clerical error that the people involved seem to be working to rectify. is there something anywhere to make this noteworthy or are you just a defund the police zealot demanding perfection from everyone you don't like while letting your allies skate on atrocities?