I personally couldn't hear a dang thing they were saying in that video, so I don't know if the subtitles were accurate. That said, there are some who are just unfit to wear a badge.
Why aren't the officers involved facing criminal charges?
I hope this guy prevails in court. Unfortunately, the guilty parties won't be footing the bill. It will be the CT tax payers.
That's what makes a problem for LE. When some interject their own personal al opi ion and ego into it. Doesn't matter if you agree or not if it's legally allowed that's the end of it.
I would place a major part of the blame for this squarely on the nature of the state where it occurred, an authoritarian leftist utopia.
Any defense attorney worth his salt would be able to use this against them in cases where they got convictions based on officer testimony.
In short, anyone they arrested prior to this, and was convicted based on officer testimony, is free to go.
It's called the Brady rule. If an Officer is found to have been untruthful, its exculpatory evidence that must be given to defense counsel and basically makes that officers' testimony worthless. Where I work it'll likely cost one their job.
In Indiana, would conspiring to file false charges be a criminal act?
It's called the Brady rule. If an Officer is found to have been untruthful, its exculpatory evidence that must be given to defense counsel and basically makes that officers' testimony worthless. Where I work it'll likely cost one their job.
Also, I don't know why the Troopers would care that he's got a sign warning about a DUI checkpoint. The first sobriety test at a checkoint is the inability to avoid said checkpoint