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Meet Hollis Deshaun King, the unluckiest SOB on the planet. On October 13, 2005, King and two friends were hanging out in King’s apartment minding their own business while smoking marijuana. Just outside of the apartment complex where the King crew was chilling, a drug bust was going down. The Lexington–Fayette County police were chasing a suspect on foot. The suspect entered the breezeway of the apartment building and promptly disappeared. The police were close enough behind him that they heard a door slam when the suspect ducked into an apartment, but they didn’t know for certain which one. So, summoning all of their hot-pursuit expertise, they chose door number one, King’s door, because they smelled marijuana in breezeway. (more…)