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Downstate Attorney Jailed 7 Years for Slipping Drugs to Inmate

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A downstate attorney who slipped drugs to an Antrim County inmate faces seven years behind bars.

A jury found Grand Rapids attorney John Waters guilty of delivering a controlled substance and conspiracy.

The prosecutor says Waters gave a drug used to treat opiate addiction to a female inmate in Antrim County in May of 2011.

There was also testimony he gave that inmate cocaine when she was in the Kent County Jail.

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