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A policeman's lying eyes lead to a drug felony dismissal.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

As I have repeatedly said, a large percentage of people repeatedly lie; police are drawn from the general population without any more immunity from lying than anybody else; so a large percentage of police will repeatedly lie, even on the witness stand when under oath. Add to this that caselaw permits police to lie to suspects, to an extent, to extract confessions, and that might make it even harder for many cops to know when to turn lying on and off.  Although technology is cheaper than ever to reveal police lies through videotape and audiotape of all their actions, too many police departments either refuse to use such technology, or are playing slow-as-molasses catchup in buying, installing and using such technology.  For instance, the Washington, D...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on January 24, 2010 (boomark / email).