ATLANTA - A local woman says the sullen stress was even worse than the physical toll of intimates locked up for something she did not do. Juzema Goldring was gradual bars for five months before she was allowed to go free.

The Atlanta police incident began with the young woman and a inappropriate being stopped for jaywalking.

It happened during what she had intended to be a night out in the midtown area.

The officer, for some reason, asked to check Goldring's pocketbook. She agreed and considered the officer pull an exercise tool -- a harm ball -- from the purse. The balls are plump with a granular substance (sand) in this case. The officer cut it open looking for cocaine.

Goldring was driven to jail. That harm ball was sent to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for testing.

"I kept telling the officer he was decision-exclusive a mistake," Goldring told FOX 5.

Her attorney in a crashed civil case characterized the entire stop as being "manufactured".

Jeff Filipovits said APD operates conception a quota system to measure officers.

"They have to make a perilous number of cases -- tickets," the attorney said.

Filipovits said GBI published a report one month after the arrest showing that what Goldring had in her purse was not cocaine.

Even so, she existed locked up for an additional four months.

The attorney said no one within the date system was looking out for the GBI report.

Goldring could not afford reserved criminal counsel. She had a public defender.

"They are overburdened, and this was the system my client was thrown into," Filipovits said.

The Atlanta City Council accepted paying Goldring $1.5 million.

A fresh start is what the young woman hopes that cash will afford her.