The Meatball Defense

You've heard of the Twinkie defense. Now here's something that could become just as famous: the meatball defense.

A random drug test on a New York City police officer revealed the presence of marijuana in his system. He was suspended without pay, but got his wife to testify that, unbeknownst to her husband, she'd spiked his meatballs with pot because she wanted him to "retire early." (Apparently, getting high makes you want to hike your golf pants up to your nipples and play bingo. Or something.) 

To you and me, such a defense might ring roughly as true as "I smoked pot but I didn't inhale" or "I bought the meth just to throw it away."

But the judge is wholly convinced that the officer is innocent, and told the city to give the guy his job back.

Two questions. How successful do you reckon the meatball defense would be if the accused was anyone but a cop? And will the city send a SWAT team to arrest Mrs. Meatball, who, after all, bought and possessed marijuana; or is such a police action strictly reserved for people who don't happen to have relatives in law enforcement?

Comments

[Dave]

You know the answer to both questions as do I and everyone else that reads this blog. He admitted that his wife smokes pot to alleviate back pain (try that defense with the feds) yet the judge wants him re-hired. I wonder how many people he's busted for the same thing his wife does regularly? It's not what you know...