tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post8293304358323275146..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: The testilying 'Bushmen'Gritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-56518379120533817062009-05-05T09:00:00.000-05:002009-05-05T09:00:00.000-05:00Just out of curiosity, if the Dallas DA said that ...Just out of curiosity, if the Dallas DA said that he shouldn't testify and put him on their 'list' - don't they have some responsibility here?<br /><br />It is their 'list' after all, yet they kept putting him on the stand...TxBluesManhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15008395777633969757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-39321073131038920652009-05-05T08:01:00.000-05:002009-05-05T08:01:00.000-05:00Symptoms of the disease. The disease remains. Name...Symptoms of the disease. The disease remains. Namely, drug prohibition. Although it's possible the cops would have lied about other things, the existence of drug prohibition makes that mendacity much more likely, given the incentives. (How much dealer cash and dope actually makes it into the evidence locker?)<br /><br />So...how much will the inevitable lawsuits cost the taxpayers...on top of the gouging they already get in order to 'fight drugs'? It won't be cheap, I betcha...kaptinemonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-71160954915196294762009-05-03T10:00:00.000-05:002009-05-03T10:00:00.000-05:00Oh, and by the way, that guy falsely accused of ca...Oh, and by the way, that guy falsely accused of carrying the drugs sat in jail for something like 10 months, waiting for his trial on that case before the prosecutors finally dropped it.123txpublicdefender123https://www.blogger.com/profile/16074278445586583355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-64217264605827685762009-05-03T09:59:00.000-05:002009-05-03T09:59:00.000-05:00Yeah, and one of the reasons this all came to ligh...Yeah, and one of the reasons this all came to light was that this officer was involved in a case where a guy was accused of having drugs--cops said they observed him walking out of a building carrying a bag that was later found to contain drugs. His attorney got surveillance tapes from the building that clearly showed that some other dude who was walking near this guy was carrying the bag that was referred to. So, the guy and his unit are still lying.<br /><br />To be fair to the current DPD chief, he keeps trying to fire officers for misconduct, and, it seems that, more often than not, just asn in Sundquist's case, some administrative law judge overturns the firing and gives the guy a slap on the wrist.<br /><br />I mean, this officer was found to have broken the law, falsified his report, and lied to internal investigators. Prosecutors were saying that they couldn't use him in court because they didn't believe him! And some ALJ decided that a 40-day suspension was enough.<br /><br />There was an interesting follow-up somewhere in the DMN about the reporter trying to track down who the hell decided that this guy should be promoted to head this unit, and, whether they bothered to look at his disciplinary history before doing so. Pretty much got the run-around and no satisfactory answer.123txpublicdefender123https://www.blogger.com/profile/16074278445586583355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-718068127514832152009-05-03T08:35:00.000-05:002009-05-03T08:35:00.000-05:00Damn. DPD corruption apparently knows no bounds.Damn. DPD corruption apparently knows no bounds.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com