Wednesday, April 2, 2008

ROGUE COPS

Every time I go into court I worry that the jury will always believe the police over my usually multi-convicted client. However it seems that police officers are doing their best to help me out.

Take for example this case. Four deputies from the Orange County Sheriff's Office Narcotic Unit were disciplined, two being dismissed, and two being suspended without pay. All of this came about when one of the deputies was arrested for perjury. An interesting upshot of this is that one of the deputys bought drugs. And there may be yet more hooked once all of the investigations have been completed.

Another example is this case where an officer from the Orlando Police department pushed a woman down the stairs. He arrested the woman saying he spit on her. Unfortunately for this officer, there was an independent video of the incident and did not show the officer wiping his face when he was supposedly spit on. This officer falsified a police report but due to a technicality he could not be punished for this transgression.