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Another DUI Cop Caught Duplicating Arrest Reports

By Lawrence Taylor

I’ve written in the past about what I call "Xeroxed reports" in DUI cases — the increasingly common practice by lazy and/or dishonest cops to simply copy the facts from other reports or use templates in creating an essentially false investigation report.  See Ready-Made DUI Arrest Reports and "Xeroxed" DUI Symptoms. For an example of an actual template, see my post Cops "Xeroxing" DUI Arrest Reports. In today’s news, the latest one to get caught (by defense attorneys):   Polk County Deputy Violated Policy in DUI Cases Sheriff’s Office Says Tex Thomas Used "Shortcuts" Such as Cut-and-Pasting Bartow, FL.  Dec. 27 — Earlier this year, prosecutors abandoned 54 DUI cases after learning that Deputy Tex Thomas had cut-and-pasted words from previous reports...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on December 27, 2009 (boomark / email).