Conviction overturned after chemist testified while on meth
Source: Associated Press
Updated 1:18 pm CDT, Friday, August 24, 2018
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) -- A Montana judge ordered a new trial for a man convicted of possessing methamphetamine after learning a state crime lab employee ingested meth before testifying to convict him.
"The manifest hypocrisy in this situation -- when a Montana Department of Justice Employee with meth in his system testified and helped secure another man's meth possession conviction -- is abhorrent," District Judge John Parker wrote Thursday.
Chemist Derek Thrush's testimony confirmed meth residue was found in a glass pipe James Donald Bachtell was carrying when he was arrested in June 2017.
Bachtell was convicted of felony criminal possession of dangerous drugs on Feb. 13.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Judge-orders-new-drug-trial-chemist-testified-13180013.php
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...and this sort of thing is what makes their suicide and alcoholism rates so high.
Hearing testimony under oath against a meth-head BY a meth-head would make ME snap.
"O Tempora! O Mores!"
Oh, sh&t. 
