Mindy Gayle Offutt's first court-ordered Narcotics Anonymous meeting was also her last. The meeting began with a prayer and ended with one, as meetings often do, but the religious undertones of the gathering made her uncomfortable.
Five days later, on Dec. 7, 2006, Offutt filed suit in U.S. District Court in Fayetteville, Ark., against the judge who sentenced her to the meetings for a misdemeanor drug possession offense. In the suit, Offutt's claimed Narcotics Anonymous amounts to religion and she should not be forced by a government official to participate in religious activity.
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