Reddit reviews The Process is the Punishment: Handling Cases in a Lower Criminal Court
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> And when they can't do that, punishment by having to wade through a tedious judiciary process.
The Process Is the Punishment
The process is the punishment.
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Yes, I agree. Speaking from personal experience, when I interned in a Texas District Atty's office during law school this sort of evidence was nearly always suppressed, often by the DA unilaterally through dismissal. Our advice to security guards was keep them on the scene voluntarily and wait for cops. Our scenarios usually involved guards catching people smoking marijuana and then finding the rest of the stuff in their pockets.
Also I think it is not just the courts that didn't want to let this guy go, the DA apparently wanted this case pretty bad. They did file an interlocutory appeal, those are pretty rare except in important cases. Most of the times these decisions to appeal or prosecute are based on the non-admissable evidence, such as character and priors.
Which leads me to suggest this book. That book summarizes the practical effects, you get your contraband confiscated, you spend a night in jail, you get an arrest record, you (possibly) pay a lawyer and then your case gets dismissed. The process is the punishment.