This is truly a bizarre story, but one i can see happening over and over again within our legal system.
Mistakes can and are made, as is evident here. Luckily for him he is somewhat of a celebrity, and was able to get both the company on his side and other people to raise his bail funds.
But cant you see this situtation, or at the least many like it occurring where the person was poor or broke and decidedly unfamous? Maybe in this sort of case, the second test would have been made eventually anyway, and he would eventually have been cleared. Even so, ignoring the chance the a person could have been convicted wrongly without a lawyer, what are the number of things that could have happened while he was in jail, unable to afford his bond? People's lives can and are ruined by a week or a month in county, awaiting a trial.
I dunno, just something i thought about. Our legal system is entirely too slanted toward those with money, but thats pretty obvious, eh?