I Inject, Your Honor

The April issue of Texas Monthly (sub only) carries an article by Skip Hollandsworth about Texas Panhandle district attorney Rick Roach:

"No one fought harder to rid the Panhandle of its methamphetamine epidemic than district attorney Rick Roach. In retrospect, an addict may not have been the best guy for the job."

A zealous, tough prosecutor, Roach dedicated himself to putting drug traffickers and longtime drug abusers behind bars and was able to persuade jurors to return guilty verdicts with long sentences. In January, however, he was arrested and charged with possession of cocaine and methamphetamine and with the intention to distribute the drugs, which caused shock throughout the community. Indeed, area newspapers had long praised the prosecutor's attempts to rid the Panhandle of drug crime, and he was so popular among the mostly conservative churchgoing Republican voters in his massive district that he had run unopposed the previous year."

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