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Update: Chicago Cop Trumps Up More DUI Cases

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The Chicago Sun-Times has more reports that Officer Joe Parker, formerly honored as one of the top DUI in the city, exaggerated DUI arrest reports. The paper’s Web site has some great video from a 2008 arrest of Raymond Bell. The video shows Bell performing a number of field sobriety tests, including walk-and-turn test, the one-legged stand and the Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus test. After reviewing the video, and the contradicting police reports by Officer Parker, prosecutors have dropped all charges against Bell. Now, prosecutors are looking into pressing charges against Officer Bell. And they’re considering filing criminal charges against the 59-year-old Parker, who is one of three Chicago cops whose prolific DUI-busting has now come under scrutiny...continue to full post

Full post as published by The DUI Blog on March 11, 2009 (boomark / email).