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I think a jury would be very sympathetic to this argument.
by engineer_22 3y ago
I think a jury would be very sympathetic to this argument.
- kemayo 3y agoYou'd think so, but the average jury is extremely deferential to police. In part because a lot of places include some questions about how you feel about the police in the standard jury screening interview, and expressing any negative opinion about police-reliability is likely to get you struck. e.g. check out the NYC standard set of questions: https://www.nycourts.gov/judges/cji/8-Colloquies/Voir%20Dire%20QUESTIONS.pdf https://www.nycourts.gov/judges/cji/8-Colloquies/Voir%20Dire... -- note that 11.a is going to automatically exclude anyone who says something like "I've heard about the blue code, thanks".
- greedo 3y agoIt's not just the average jury, but prosecutors, judges, mayors, city councils. Police get a pass for so much misconduct on an individual and institutional level it boggles the mind.
- engineer_22 3y agoText in question: -> 11. Police questions: (a) Have you had an interaction or experience with a police officer or other law enforcement person, or formed an opinion about police or our criminal justice system that would prevent you from being a fair juror? (b) Under our law, a police officer is not more, or less, believable just because he or she is a police officer. A juror must evaluate a police officer's testimony for truthfulness and accuracy in the same way the juror would evaluate the testimony of any other witness. is there any reason you cannot do so? If a candidate expresses an opinion that would be deferential to either side, they are likely to get struck. This is a feature, not a bug.
- Zigurd 3y agoCan confirm. I hung a jury where the cop clearly lied.