Feeney & Gurwitz

Fortunately, this police officer’s lie was contradicted by video-camera footage. EXCERPT The officer, Michael T. Slager, 33, said he had feared for his life because the man had taken his stun gun in a scuffle after a traffic stop on Saturday. A video, however, shows the officer firing eight times as the man, Walter L. Scott, 50, fled.

Dashboard audio/video recordings are an effective way to check police abuses of their authority.

Justice cannot be regularly found when false accusers are not pursued with at least the same vigor as the accused.

Any law enforcement agency claiming it seeks the truth should prosecute false accusers with a vengeance. Unfortunately, that rarely happens.

EXCERPT During the sweep, the court filing said, the Hartes were told they had been under surveillance for months, but the couple "know of no basis for conducting such surveillance nor do they believe such surveillance would have produced any facts supporting the issuance of a search warrant."