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Saturday, October 27, 2007
Ind. Courts - More on: Evansville attorney previously charged with meth violatons allegedly fails drug test
Updating this ILB entry from Oct. 23rd, which quoted a story in the Evansville Courier & Press, John Martin of the same paper reports today:
A local attorney who was jailed for allegedly failing a drug test ordered as a condition of bail was released Friday when the test results turned out to be a false positive.Teresa Perry's trial on methamphetamine charges stemming from her spring arrest had been scheduled to begin this week.
Instead, Perry spent the week in jail after testing positive for drugs during a required check-in.
Perry, 33, maintained the result was inaccurate, and Vanderburgh Superior Court Judge Wayne Trockman released her Friday after a follow-up drug screening contradicted the earlier one.
"The science proved our contention that she did not use drugs on bail. ... The truth was brought out," Perry's attorney, Doug Walton, said.
Perry's trial on eight counts related to distributing and possessing methamphetamine has been rescheduled for Dec. 10.
Trockman on Friday refused to discuss Perry's case specifically but said that "false positive" tests, while rare, are not unprecedented.
He said confirmation tests, which are requested by the court and take about three days to process, are 100 percent accurate.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 27, 2007 04:35 PM
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