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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Florida prosecutor seeks to clear records of people charged with buying police-made crack in 1980s

Police Made Crack Cocaine-Florida - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

A Florida prosecutor says he will seek to vacate as many as 2,600 convictions of people who bought crack cocaine manufactured by the Broward County Sheriff's Office for sting operations between 1988 and 1990.

The Florida Supreme Court ruled in 1993 that people couldn't be charged in cases where the sheriff's office had made the crack cocaine and undercover deputies then sold it to buyers who were arrested and charged.

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