Doing a DNA test is a waste of taxpayer money?

[The Straight Story]

Sapulpa man, cleared by DNA evidence, plans to sue for wrongful arrest

SAPULPA - A Sapulpa man who was held in jail for 84 days before DNA evidence cleared him in the brutal rape of his then-girlfriend's 4-year-old daughter plans to sue the Creek County Sheriff's Office for wrongful arrest.

Tommy Braden's attorney, Don Smolen, of Tulsa, sent notice earlier this month that they plan to take legal action for wrongful arrest and detention, which they allege was the result of the Sheriff's Office negligence.

"From day one he's begging them to do a DNA test," Smolen said. "They said they weren't going to do that because it was a waste of taxpayers' dollars."

Braden was arrested shortly after the April 6, 2012, rape and was not released until a defense attorney, Lowell Howe, got a judge to approve a DNA test which cleared him on July 3.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/article.aspx/Sapulpa_man_cleared_by_DNA_evidence_plans_to_sue_for/20130429_11_A9_CUTLIN283007

[DevonRex]

1. Stories like this just infuriate me!!!!

There is no benefit to any LEO not to find exculpatory evidence and find it first. That was what I lived and breathed. Thinking like a defense attorney so I knew I had the facts, not just the facts as I wanted them to be.

[JaneyVee]

2. Waste of taxpayer money? Start coughing up the dough, you're being sued.

[DevonRex]

3. Exactly!

And they deserve it, too! Not only that but the sheriff deserves to lose his job and damn well should lose his job.

[Newest Reality]

4. Justice

and miscarriage are coming closer to being synonymous in this decaying system we have.

[Mnemosyne]

5. Word. nt