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Denver Police Star in Police Brutality Video: Are Judges Watching?

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If you counsel criminal clients for even a week, you will hear two things repeatedly.  One is that, "The cops stole my drug money."  Two is that, "The cops beat me up.  I never resisted arrest." It's easy to brush off these claims at first.  Clients say all sorts of implausible things.  But when you've heard the same descriptions over and over, you start to believe that there might be some truth to what you're hearing. Unfortunately, judges do not have this perspective.  In a resisting arrest case, they will always side with the police.  Always.  Judges simply cannot comprehend that police would beat a person up for no reason, lie about it, and then charge the guy with resisting arrest...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on August 14, 2008 (boomark / email).

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