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Fla. Man Spent 2 Months in Jail for Drinking Herbal Tea
Posted Jun 27, 2008, 11:23 am CST
By Martha Neil
A Florida man facing a burglary charge is once again free on bond, after his lawyer persuaded a judge that he had seemingly violated the terms of his bond unintentionally, by drinking a cocaine-containing herbal tea.
Meanwhile, however, suspect Jerome Klein spent two months in jail in Broward County after drinking the Bolivian herbal tea prepared by his mother and subsequently failing a drug test, reports the Miami Herald.
"In May, state prosecutors said Klein's urine contained too high a concentration of cocaine to be caused by drinking tea," the newspaper recounts. "But Friday, Theodore Mastos, a former Miami-Dade County judge, convinced Circuit Judge John Murphy III that Klein was the unknowing victim of the herbal brew."
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