re: Per SI - Texas A&M WR Ainias Smith Arrested on Gun, Drug Charges

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Exactly. This will be decided by the blood test. Either he should be kicked off the team or the cop should be fired.

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Police aren't legal experts. They are blunt instruments of enforcement, trained to pull people into the justice system at the slightest whiff of infraction, and let others sort it out from there. Charges get dropped all the time. It's no reason to fire cops.

If there was a blood test, it will tell the tale.

If there wasn't, then the officer better have some very compelling testimony and/or dash/vest cam recordings clearly showing significant impairment during the field tests, or the prosecutor is going to end up dropping all the charges, or at the very least the marijuana charge will get plead down to a class c misdomeanor of some sort, which will negate the unlawful carry of weapon charge anyway, and that will be the end of it.

Of course, new information could always come out that would alter this assessment one way or the other.