zaterdag 30 december 2017

Punishing officers who deliberately falsify police reports? No is the consensus among judges.
The Supreme Court in 2013 ruled that procedural errors, accidental or deliberate, are a pain in the ass and virtually deleted the concept altogether.

Motion to suppress faulty police evidence is history. Some defense lawyers have tried, the request is standardly denied. The courts just bent their line of reasoning a bit, euphemizing falsification into a typo: "acquitting lawbreakers on technicalities doesn't go down very well with the general public anymore." (NRC, 6 Sept 2017)


(Dian Brouwer, Mr. aug. 2014)