SoylentNews
SoylentNews is people
https://soylentnews.org/

Title    34 Criminal Cases Tossed after Body cam Footage Shows Cop Planting Drugs
Date    Monday July 31 2017, @06:22PM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the What-does-this-button-do? dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/07/31/1215207

Mykl writes:

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!


Original Submission

Links

  1. "Mykl" - https://soylentnews.org/~Mykl/
  2. "already thrown out 34 criminal cases" - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/07/faked-body-cam-footage-gets-dozens-of-criminals-set-free-and-more-likely/
  3. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=21513

© Copyright 2024 - SoylentNews, All Rights Reserved

printed from SoylentNews, 34 Criminal Cases Tossed after Body cam Footage Shows Cop Planting Drugs on 2024-03-29 14:41:46