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Police prevarication in Austin overlooked with wink and a nod

I ran across a story from a couple of years ago on a local Austin attorney's blog about alleged police testilying which, before the advent of attorney blogs, would undoubtedly have been silently ignored. Don't get me wrong, it was still officially ignored, by the police department, prosecutors, the judge, etc.. But Austin attorney Kiele Linthrop Pace at least did not remain silent, recording the story of an Austin police officer who seemingly, rather blatantly fabricated facts in a probable-cause affidavit."It's been a long time since I learned that police officers not only have incentive to lie but that many of them do it all the time," her blog post opens. "As explained long ago by a federal appeals court judge, who was recently quoted in a Wall Street Journal article, 'It is an open secret long shared by prosecutors, defense lawyers and judges that perjury is widespread among law enforcement officers...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 16, 2011 (boomark / email).