Fake but Accurate!
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
I'll bet a hefty fine and substantial jail time would do wonders to improve Christian's memory.
Sounds right.
Police have to play all kinds of tricks since criminals have more rights than victims
Worth signing in to read the full article. It has many elements of the Duke rape hoax — the lab technician who made the fake report didn’t exist, the prosecutor ignored the actual report because it didn’t help her case, then refused the defense attorney’s request for the file, etc.
Oh, and the perjury? His boss describes it as “an honest mistake”.
“Christian then remembered that he had concocted the report in an attempt to trick the defendant...It was an acceptable tactic.”
Has this guy been taking Dan Rather pills?
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That is an acceptable tactic?! That's horrible. It's not difficult to get false confessions and this would contribute to that.
This needs to be referred to the Grand Jury.
This kind of dishonesty destroys the peoples faith in the integrity of our justice system. It hurts the rule of law.
> “It was an acceptable tactic.”
The whole problem started right here. It was NOT an acceptable tactic to begin with.
But Christian said that by the time he was called to testify, more than a year later, he had forgotten the ruse.
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DOH!
“It was an acceptable tactic”
Lying by cops is now acceptable?
It’s crap like this that made me rethink the death penalty.
Here’s an idea for a new law. Anyone caught falsifying evidence in a case gets the sentence that would have been handed down in that case.
The cops are looking to get convictions. If they convict the right person, will that's nice too.
Fake but Accurate!
So they are allowed to use fake documents to induce a confession but are allowed to say the fake the confession founded on a lie is real.
When you have defendants who consider the unlimited financial resources of the state vs their limited ability to mount a defense, the clearly shocks the conscience.
No confession should be induced by fraudulent evidence.
If this is fake what else has the officer “accidentally” testified to? How many other times did this “expert” produce a report?
The blood draw was actually filmed. At first, the technician asked to get the blood sample from his finger. The doctor asked instead to have the blood drawn from his forearm, which was his right, since he volunteered to take the test. He wore a shirt and sweater which could not be pulled up over his elbow.
Since the doctor passed the test, the accuser's reputation was ruined. Years later, the rape victim hired a PI to obtain some DNA from the doctor. The PI broke into the doctor's car and stole a tube of used Chapstick. A private lab tested the DNA and found a match. The illegally obtained evidence was presented to the police, who reopened the case. The doctor was finally convicted, eight years later.
I have not spoken to any ex-cop that won’t admit that the police lie anytime they think it will help them to get a conviction. Some have laughed about it. Real funny unless you are the one put in jail because of it I guess...
Note to self: Next time I use a “lie detector” consisting of a metal collander and a copy machine that spits out “He’s lying” after every answer, don’t put the documents into evidence.