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When Public Safety Trumps Justice

By Brian Tannebaum, Esq.

There is a common thread that runs through any discussion of lying cops. First we start with the premise that cops lie. Then someone says "well not all cops lie," or "yeah, but those are isolated incidents." Then the discussion of dash cams and recorded interrogations begins with someone invariably saying "we need to trust the cops."There are those who don't trust cops, period, and there are those who believe that hey, if a cop lies to get a "bad guy" off the street, so what?The most recent discussion began with this video of what is nothing less than a conspiracy to obstruct justice. It was not done in a murder case or a multi-defendant drug trafficking case, but a DUI case. A misdemeanor DUI case.Here's the question: Is this the first time, in the history of law enforcement, that this has happened?Of course not...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Defense on August 01, 2009 (boomark / email).