Cops Perjure?

Pretty funny and this is how it works in the real world but most people can't believe its true.
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by DREW MIKKELSEN / KING5 News

Posted on August 5, 2010 at 3:45 PM

Updated today at 5:28 PM


TACOMA, Wash. - Two Pierce County sheriff's deputies entered not guilty pleas to perjury charges for allegedly lying under oath.

Jeffrey Montgomery and Rex McNicol are each charged with lying when they testified about how they seized a rifle at an Orting home last year.

According to prosecutors, the Sheriff's Office received a 911 call from a 12-year-old child who said that "drugs were being used in the home."

Montgomery and McNicol were sent to the home to check on the welfare of the young boy. While they were there they seized a rifle from the homeowner, a convicted felon who is prohibited from owning firearms.

During a court hearing in March about the seizure, the deputies testified they never went into the home and that the homeowner admitted having the gun and retrieved it for them. But a police report written by Montgomery and the testimony of other witnesses contradicted the deputies' statements.

In his police report on the incident, Montgomery wrote that McNicol went into the home and retrieved the rifle even though he had no search warrant authorizing him to do so.

The judge dismissed the gun charge against the homeowner after ruling the seizure was improper. The judge also questioned the credibility of the deputies' testimony.

The Sheriff's Office then put the deputies on paid leave and forwarded the investigation to prosecutors. When the deputies were charged last week, they were put on unpaid leave.

If convicted of the perjury charge, a class "B" felony, the men each face a maximum sentence of ten years in prison.

And really, if the truth be known, this isn't an isolated case. Most lie all the time because they rationalize they are doing their job. :wtf:

Tis the norm and when picked to take one for the team..well the prosecutor generally screws the case up and on some technicality the cop walks cause the jury gets the wrong impression...or evidence is lost beyond finding or replicating...sad..this will be one to watch...

Would sure be interesting to find a prosecutor who does prosecute tesiliers and helps mmj patients and the rest of society in their district...;)

Have known many cops that say its there duty to perjure to make sure the bad guys go to jail. Some are stil under the impression they are judge jury and executioner. Have also been involved in a couple cases where the prosecutor has tried to get an officer to perjure on the stand but the officer had the personal integrity to not be manipulated.