"This court, in good conscience, cannot allow an indictment to stand when its fabric has been interwoven with the withholding of material evidence, false testimony, and racist remarks".
The police have disclosed that perhaps 100 cases might have been tainted by planted evidence, false testimony or other police abuses.
I have found that in half of the 20 cases where individuals sentenced to death have later been exonerated by DNA evidence, false confessions occurred.
In addition to reckless homicide, Batts has been charged with tampering with evidence, false reporting and possessing a firearm as a felon.
The difference is in the ability for a defense attorney to be able to determine whether or not physical or digital evidence is false evidence.
We know this because of new techniques like DNA testing and because re-examined evidence uncovers false eyewitness testimony and suppression of evidence.
Mr. Lewis, the United States attorney, said, "It is clear, we believe, based on the evidence presented, that there was planting of evidence and false statements given regarding the follow-up investigation".
It is one thing for a prosecutor or a detective to make a mistake in convicting a criminal defendant, but it is another to manufacture or plant evidence, coerce false confessions or false witness statements, or suppress evidence of innocence.
She has been charged with tampering with evidence and false reporting.
Of course, we now know that this incontrovertible visual evidence was false.
