http://www.buzzfeed.com/mbvd/police-chief-cites-satirical-websites-37-deaths-as-evidence \t if ya got to fail, fail hard...
It's an old lawyer's trick. The "jury" can't "unhear" what they just heard, even if the lawyer has to retract it. Sorry, but it was for immediate effect. Any retraction thereafter doesn't matter.
Except that only works with circumstantial events. It doesn't work with facts which if people died of overdoses of weed, that would be fact. I would hope everyone in that room knew no one actually died of weed. If someone were to say "there are 14 inches in 1 foot", I would hope that wouldn't cast doubt into people's minds about how long a foot actually is because it's fact.
You can say anything and it can't be "unheard." That is the point, not whether it was factual info being relayed or not. Since when have prohibitionists used facts anyway?
Damn all you guys have cartoon dogs as your avatar lol. anyways I get the plant the seed trick. If that's so, that pig might not be such a fool. Still I don't know if he did it on purpose and that would have definitely hurt his credibility..no?
He won't care when rewarded with some new lucrative position after his tenure is up. Sherriffs are just another form of politician in this day and age. Plenty of politcos fall on swords for corporate interests, get out of politics and work for some "think tank" for years, maybe change parties, and then come back and do it over all again, or sit on corporate boards. Someone's current position and status can be used to seed themselves a nice bonus years down the road even if they look like a fool at the time. They are doing as told. There are no "mix ups" with this issue. Its all planned out.