Prosecutor

A Florida cop secretly recorded a “hallway deposition” on his body cam of an innocent criminal court defendant and counsel, without asking his permission, in the courthouse hallway.
Florida’s wiretapping law only exempts police who are investigating a suspected crime.
But this Miami Beach officer was investigating a court case, and in so doing prejudiced the rights of the innocent, and he broke the law too.
Because he didn’t suspect anyone of a crime while having a discussion in a courthouse hallway.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton faces four new federal charges in an SEC civil court case announced today.
But Paxton still won’t resign his office.
Everything’s bigger in Texas, and the same goes for it’s top law enforcement officials legal woes stemming from his days as a lawyer and member of the Texas State House of Representatives from the suburban cities of Frisco, Allen and McKinney just north of Dallas.

A Missouri prosecutor filed a quo warranto lawsuit against the City Marshal-elect from the town of Dixon, to keep him out of office, as county police step in to keep order after a near-riot.
It’s not often that prosecutors sue police.
According to local news outlet KY3, ‘Pulaski County Sheriff Ron Long called the protest at city hall on the night after the election a ‘near riot,'” and:

The American public is distracted, detached and distanced from anything that we vaguely recognize as relevant. And who can blame us? It’s so much easier to talk of the pol who cuts a pizza slice with a knife and fork versus the patented pleated fold. Or seeing Madame Hillary fumble with a NY subway Metrocard to travel two stops in her sudden connection with the masses. We’re a country who knows nothing, feels nothing and appreciates nothing. That involves intellectual heavy lifting. And concern. Alas.

The Facebook page of an Arizona police union blew up over the weekend with more comments than they have likes on their page for defending the indefensible.
Murder.
Mesa Police Association wrote a long defense of Mitchell Brailsford who is seeking a plea deal after being charged with second degree murder for killing Daniel Shaver, an innocent pest-control worker who used a pellet gun to shoot birds in Walmart stores.

One Kentucky judge filed suit against his oversight panel, because his free speech has caused a legal firestorm to erupt in Louisville.
Judge Stevens contends that the Kentucky Judicial Conduct Commission is violating his First Amendment right to freedom of speech after he made controversial commentary from the bench and on Facebook.
So, the Jefferson Circuit Court Judge Olu Stevens has taken the step of filing a federal lawsuit against the Commission and its members in their official capacity.

Americans are too busy. Too busy taking pictures of their food and selfies and being self-absorbed and self-focused, bathing in a warm narcissistic glow. And when it comes to getting deep into certain issues, especially those that might be construed as being conspiratorial in nature (translation: true), you might as well change that channel, Sparky. We’re busy. But how we love to bask in the delusion that we’re news junkies, possessed of an elementary understanding of the working parts of multitiered issues analysis. Pshaw! Have a nice day.

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Cops even have a word for it: Testilying.
How far will a lie or two get you?
Well, lies is what got a Raleigh Sheriff’s Deputy fired along with 175 cases thrown out of court in which the deputy was a witness for.
Deputy Robert Davis of the Wake County Sheriff’s Department caused 175 traffic and DWI cases to be dismissed because he failed to be honest.
Now, the Wake County District Attorney is livid because the cases can’t be prosecuted– prosecutions are the backbones of a prosecutor’s career.

A Florida deputy is facing charges after his abuse of a handcuffed suspect was caught on camera inside of a patrol car.
Michael O’Connor is the Seminole County sheriff’s deputy and ex-Navy serviceman charged with misdemeanor battery.
Supervisors learned about video of him beating the handcuffed suspect, eventually bringing charges.
O’Connor was suspended and resigned before the internal investigation was completed.