There seems to be a trend among prosecutors to go for the kill and stomp all over the accuseds’ rights — withholding evidence, press conferences, plea bargains, threats, etc. However, isn’t the motto of Ms. Blind Justice “innocent until proven guilty”? You’d think the prosecutor would be more interested in the TRUTH than just putting one more notch on a briefcase.

My experience with DNA testing goes back to paternity testing — I could pay to be exonerated or I was automatically guilty. I paid. (And keep on paying, he was my son…)

At the very least, the suggestion that all police interrogations be videotaped so that the judge and jury can verify that the confession is warranted.

“Rogue police officers,” I guess the moral of the story is, don’t piss off police officers because they might frame you. Hopefully, it is a very small segmemt of the police population who actually do this and that in the near future we will be able to identify them and get them out of police force. Easier said than done, I know.

We have a cop in Dallas who arrested several people for possession of drugs, turned out that the “drugs” were fake. It was some sort of white powder, can’t remember the specific substance, but it went to trial and they were convicted for possession of cocaine. How did that happen? You would think it would be an easy thing to check to see if the substance is actually cocaine. You would think that somewhere in the prosecution phase or at trial, someone would actually test the substance and confirm that it is an illegal drug. The defense lawyers, I’m thinking the victims were not rich enough to hire their own attorneys, for the defendants really dropped the ball on this one, but so did the prosecutors. The worst part of it is that the cop seems to be getting off fairly easy. No punishment for him for providing false evidence. Of course, his defense was that he was ignorant of the fact that the substance planted on the innocent victims was not actually cocaine. His other defense is that he was “duped” by his informants into witnessing the false evidence and making the arrest based on that. I don’t know anywhere in America except in government jobs where you can advertise the fact that you don’t check your own work and that you are a fool and still get to keep your job. The drama is still going on. You can read about in the Dallas Morning News, search for “delapaz.”