Perjury: Is it different for cops?
Interesting story in the Star today – my sense is that police don’t lie very often – they have their own impressions but that’s a different matter. Regardless this is a good story worth reading.
Cases show double standard, critics say
Aug 02, 2008
Betsy Powell Peter Small Staff reporters
A Toronto judge acquits two men of firearms charges, finding that police testimony was "unreliable, likely false." In another courtroom, a judge convicts a prominent community activist of perjury, ruling that she deliberately misled the court.
Full story here:
http://www.thestar.com/article/471623
1 comment:
Eddie Greenspan dealt with police perjury in a book he wrote in the 80's. He laid out a number of examples of blatant perjury in which the court dismissed the officers' evidence but did nothing by way of censure.
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