Hundreds of police officers have been labeled liars. Some still help send people to prison.
One night in 2006, Houston police pulled him over for a missing license plate and told him to walk a straight line. Vara said that he hadn’t had a drop to drink and that he passed the sobriety test. Officer William Lindsey said otherwise. At trial, jurors were told about Lindsey’s expertise evaluating drunken drivers. They were told about Vara’s two previous DWIs. What jurors weren’t told: Officer Lindsey had been found guilty of misconduct by his department 35 times. He was investigated for padding his overtime – by manipulating DWI ...
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