A Woman Impersonated the Prosecutor To Drop Charges Against Herself

People learned from Bart Simpson and Shaggy that telling the truth when you're caught are acceptable defenses. But in the face of empirical facts, neither one is very successful. You need another person's agreement that you didn't do something bad in order to get away with it, Someone like the district attorney. When Lisa Landon was accused of stalking and drug possession, she believed this. She required the prosecutor to dismiss such allegations.

Landon went with Plan B and pretended to be the prosecutor, filing her own paperwork to dismiss the charges because it was likely that the real prosecutor would not be sympathetic to her situation. The plan did not succeed, and as a result, she was charged with seven more offenses, including false personation and tampering with evidence.

She ran into trouble when a forensic examiner who was supposed to speak with Landon to assess her competency called the prosecutor to inquire whether the interview should go ahead now that the charges had been dismissed. Who knows if it had succeeded had it not been for that.