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Originally Posted by Bremen
I wonder if someone could have filed false documents with the jail to get him released? Wouldn't shock me if the whole prison system was easy to game but criminals are just too dumb to figure it out.
I'm sure it's possible, and I'm sure it's happened, but it's not a routine thing because the jail intake supervisor and the clerk of court probably have 15 phone calls a day and exchange nearly the same number of emails, and in my experience the practical way this actually goes down is the clerk calling the jail intake officer and saying "I'm about to fax over paperwork on x, look for it" etc.
The way this apparently went down was the clerk sent over both a nolle prosequi order and a new indictment, which is a pretty routine thing. It's not uncommon for prosecutors to nolle prosequi a case and add additional charges. This process should be a routine occurance for someone who's job it is to essentially work as a liaison between the jail and the courts.