Criminal
Dec. 28, 2010
The End of Federal Civil Rights Law
Judges choose to exonerate police officers involved in police abuse at the expense of our civil liberty. By Ben Rosenfeld.
If there's one thing lawyers, and particularly judges, are good at, it's torturing the exact opposite conclusion out of a set of facts which any honest witness to the event would reach. This is especially true when the defendant is a police officer. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Perry demonstrated this when he took the unusual step of tossing out part of the jury verdict against Johannes Mehserle, the San Francisco transit cop ...
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