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California Judge Reconsiders Six Months’ Jail for Cookie Theft at Rehab Program
Loaded on Oct. 1, 2020
by Anthony Accurso
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2020, page 49
Filed under:
Resentencing.
Location:
California.
by Anthony W. Accurso
Gregory Fields was in a court-ordered rehab program at the Salvation Army Harbor Light Center in San Francisco. He had completed a 30-day detox and blackout period when he started the program, during which he could not contact family or friends.
He was ‘‘acclimated in groups, ...
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