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Dallas County to settle lawsuit with whistleblower from fake drug case

At the Dallas News Crime Blog last week, Kevin Krause had a postscript to the Dallas fake-drug scandal, describing the 5-year legal saga over a DA's office investigator fired for blowing the whistle on lying cops who falsified evidence:[William] Hughes told the feds in 2002 that prosecutors failed to do anything about cops lying under oath in felony drug cases. In 2004, Hughes shared his information with a Dallas County grand jury -- the one that was investigating Dallas' infamous fake drug scandal.Hughes later accused former District Attorney Bill Hill and others in his office of trying to pressure him into changing his story.The grand jury determined that Hill and two subordinates did not commit witness tampering.According to Hughes, at least two cops lied when they testified that they found drugs after random traffic stops...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 04, 2010 (boomark / email).