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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday August 01 2017, @01:30PM (1 child)
Breasts cause massive mindblow to many people. The idea of breastfeeding causes mindblow. Pubic hairs cause it. A vagina, or a penis? Such an image, especially if made public, could cause the cosmos to crumble around us.
Then again, maybe not.
(Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday August 01 2017, @04:23PM
Can you imagine a Rio Carnival in Harrison, Arkansas today? Me neither.
This is why I reckon US need more Latino immigration.
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford