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BULLIES

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

It has been alleged that the prosecution in the recently concluded drug trafficking case refused to make a plea offer after the defense had filed a motion to suppress. Whether or not that is true, it raises the issue of prosecutors doing this more and more. If this trend keeps happening it will not be long before the prosecution will withdraw all plea offers if the defense demands discovery.We have raised this issue to the FACDL and received a shrug (figuratively) in reply. Something needs to be done. Taking depositions and filing motions to suppress are the job of a defense attorney. We have seen in this County many many examples of corruption by police officers. It was not too long ago that some officers were arrested for lying in a drug case to super attorney Lynn Overman (who still remains banned from the PDs office)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on April 13, 2008 (boomark / email).