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Fort Worth justice says traffic stop video too often missing, ignored in DWI cases

Last week I praised the notion of police headset cams and said that dashcams required in Texas' racial profiling law, where they had been installed, were generally well received. In response, commenter "Old Cop" immediately chided my naivete:It's amazing how many officers modern dash-cams "malfunction" when the facts surrounding the contact are in question and may not be favorable to the agency or the case at hand.Sad commentary on the level and integrity of many of today's investigations.Now, over at Liberty and Justice for Y'all we learn that Justice Lee Ann Dauphinot on Fort Worth's 2nd Court of Appeals shares Old Cop's concerns, chastising her colleagues in a recent dissent for a "terribly disturbing" decision by her colleagues to rely "on the officer's testimony to the exclusion of the contradictory evidence of the video record...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 18, 2010 (boomark / email).