> Should a defendant walk if it they can prove at trial that the cop said something that wasn't true? Absolutely yes. These lies cause real harm, and the cops

> Should a defendant walk if it they can prove at trial that the cop said something that wasn't true? Absolutely yes. These lies cause real harm, and the cops need to face consequences or they have no reason to abstain. A friend of some of my friends would be alive today if a cop had not lied to him about the consequences of a minor fender-bender, claiming he'd put someone in the hospital with critical injuries and it was uncertain they'd survive. (The cop was caught on tape telling his partner, "it's a lie, but it's fun"; nobody was actually hurt, at all.) Overwhelmed with remorse, feeling the world would be better off without him, he killed himself. The cop got a week's unpaid vacation for this.