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Trista Allen says that Watkins had no knowledge of the Hammond case and how it was handled. "In January we had 6,600 misdemeanors," she explained last week. "Last year we had 75,000. We have to move cases, and if someone no longer has a job, what more needs to happen?"
Perkins, though, says that the issue isn't that the District Attorney's Office dropped the charges, but why. "There's nothing wrong with dismissing a case; it's how it was handled and by whom."
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