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Photo by Danny FulgencioSteven Phillips​Steven Phillips, a man who spent 25 years in prison for a string of Dallas rapes he did not commit, was arrested in Carrollton for cocaine possession -- an arrest that could cost him millions. When reached by phone, Phillips declined to comment. But according to the arrest affidavit obtained by Unfair Park, on August 15, at around 9:48 p.m., Carrollton Police pulled his red Toyota Tundra over for having a cracked taillight. Phillips had had a little to drink, so he let a friend drive him. The friend, it turned out, had a suspended license and two active warrants with the Addison Police. She was arrested. Phillips blew into a portable breath tester and was found to be below the legal limit. The police ran his drivers' license and requested to search the truck. Phillips consented, and, according to the affidavit, an officer came up with two plastic bags containing four grams of coke in a take-out container. Possession of cocaine in any amount is a felony. In 2009, Phillips applied for and subsequently received statutory compensation for the years he spent wrongfully imprisoned -- some $4 million, half paid in a lump sum and the other half paid out in an annuity that garners five-percent interest each year until the day he dies. There's a caveat: If he's convicted of a felony, the annuity is gone.