So there you go New Haven residents, the money train is still flowing, all you have to do to get it is go through a little police brutality…

Stop cooperating or stop complaining, pick one. They can’t throw any single one of us in jail unless we let them, and they can certainly never throw all of us in jail.

Just to prove that the court system gets you no matter what, I was to be the first case up in the morning. I had spoken with the judge at my first appearance and was assured that taking 4 hours off from work would be MORE than ample time for her, the officer and myself to present our evidence and get a ruling. It was. the problem was that I was ordered not to leave the courtroom until my case was heard. ok, I’m up first. After waiting 20 min for the judge to finally open court I was told two other cases had been placed ahead of me. As a result of that and the fact that I was not allowed to leave the courtroom until my case was finished, 5 1/2 hours later, I returned to my car and found a ticket on it for expired parking meter. When I went to court for that one I was told that I should have planned ahead better. When I explained that my options were use the parking meter 6 blocks away from the courthouse (the closest I could find) or park in the city parking garage and pay $25 for the day because there was a convention going on I was told too bad. I tried to explain that the judge would not let me leave the courtroom so I could not have gotten out to feed the meter I was told I should have paid the $25. I had been unemployed for close to two years at that point so I couldn’t afford extra crap but they got me in the end anyway. Instead of paying the $65 for the tint ticket I paid $65 for a parking meter ticket. DO you know how hard it is to try and take time off from a new job to go to court when you’d been unemployed for so long? This country doesn’t work anymore but it’s still better than the alternatives… for now.

If so, then it’s likely that deleted videos and pictures probably aren’t, they’ve just had part of the card’s directory changed to show that the video/picture isn’t there. And there’s a lot of file recovery programs available both free and paid.

Be nice to “recover the evidence.”

John

Where is your socialism now?

That’s correct. Otherwise the city/county would face a false arrest lawsuit in many instances. The plea to “spitting on the sidewalk” wipes out that threat. Unfortunately, these lawyerless pleas to “minor” charges very often come back to bit the Defendant years afterwords.

That said, it’s almost impossible to get a criminal case dropped completely once you are charged with something. The reality is they play with taxpayer bucks and don’t give a shit how much they spend. They will drive you broke with a trial preceded by scores of pointless motions. That, plus a downside that involves lots of risk if you lose, means almost everyone pleads guilty to something or they’re a fool. The new trend is bogus means testing so appointed counsel, including the public defender, becomes harder to get. Like the cops they kneel down before, prosecutors love to fight battles where they tie their opponents’ hands behind their backs.

From the story:

“Though I didn’t agree or consent to it (it) was not rape,” a young woman scrawled hours after she said she was sexually assaulted by a Marion police officer.

It’s a sentence she said other Marion police who investigated her claim coerced her into writing.

Absolutely true.

Prosecutors have a “ethical” obligation to serve Justice, not simply get convictions. That’s just P.R.

Prosecutors must keep their numbers up and please the police (whose endorsement they need for re-election). To them EVERYONE is a criminal, they simply haven’t been found out yet (consider the psychological source of common this police/prosecutorial belief).