When video footage of a mother smuggling drugs to her incarcerated son during a prison visit failed to be preserved, the indicted defendant succeeded at getting the state’s case against her dismissed in Washington County Superior Court.

But a ruling handed down by the Georgia Court of Appeals has reinstated the defendant’s charges following a determination that the now missing video contained inculpatory, rather than exculpatory, evidence implying the woman’s guilt rather than innocence.

‘Acted in Bad Faith’

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