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Ars Technica brings us an update to an earlier story in which a court case was thrown out when a police officer's body cam showed him planting drugs before 'finding' them immediately after. Now prosecutors in Maryland are reviewing other body-cam footage and have already thrown out 34 criminal cases with many more under review:
The Baltimore Police Department's body cams, like many across the nation, capture footage 30 seconds before an officer presses the record button. The footage was turned over to defense attorneys as part of a drug prosecution - and that's when the misdeed was uncovered.
[...] "We are dismissing those cases which relied exclusively on the credibility of these officers," Mosby told a news conference Friday. She said the dismissed cases, some of which have already been prosecuted, involved weapons and drugs.
Lesson learned cops - plant drugs, wait 30 seconds, then turn on the camera!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by ikanreed on Monday July 31 2017, @09:10PM (2 children)
Better to let a thousand innocent men be punished unfairly, than allow a single guilty man who was caught purely by coincidence free.
But you're right, that should absolutely be grounds for a retrial for literally every single person this officer had any connection to the investigation of.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Monday July 31 2017, @09:37PM
Better, and more profitable for the private prison system and lawyers.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 01 2017, @12:00AM
They're all guilty of something! Why else would they have gotten the cops attention?! Life is fair! The world is just! Kill them all!
We need to handle this problem the way the Philippines does! Kill them all!
Trump! Trump! Trump!