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shogi_x t1_j6on8k8 wrote

Reply to comment by MalcolmLinair in Faked-Evidence Case Collapses as Prosecutors Fail to Turn Over Evidence by walkandtalkk

Nonsense conspiracy theory. Her law career is fucked. Think about how much she's just lost in lifetime earnings from this very public firing. No one is paying that kind of money to get one shitty cop off the hook.

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Did y'all even read the story? They intentionally withheld this evidence because it would have helped the defense.

>Some of the withheld evidence included videos from surveillance footage, memos from investigators, communications between prosecutors and cellphones from people arrested after Mr. Franco identified them as drug dealers, Mr. Tanner said in an interview. He described the evidence as “potentially exculpatory.”

>Mr. Tanner said that prosecutors in court blamed their failure to turn over evidence on “gross negligence,” but said that he did not trust that their actions had not been willful.

They did it to win the case, not lose. And when they got caught, they said "oops, it was an accident".

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walkandtalkk OP t1_j6opjjb wrote

No reputable law firm is going to take on someone who was publicly fired after being named by the New York Times as grossly botching a crucial case and letting a serious (alleged) criminal off scot-free.

Plus, she may well have major problems with the bar.

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PEVEI t1_j6ot6jx wrote

This sub takes healthy skepticism about law enforcement and feeds it through a fever dream, this is actually pretty mild by contrast. As you say though, this is the end of more than one career, done in a way that was always going to become public. If you were going to tank a case, this is not the way a sane person would do it.

But good luck trying to tell that to people here.

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DeaddyRuxpin t1_j6pgggi wrote

There is some serious irony in a corrupt cop case being screwed up because the prosecutor was corrupt.

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open_door_policy t1_j6opmyr wrote

> No one is paying that kind of money to get one shitty cop off the hook.

How many shitty cops would threaten murder if she didn't fuck the case up though?

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shogi_x t1_j6oqzc9 wrote

How many people would threaten to kill her for letting him walk?

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rikki-tikki-deadly t1_j6otcbs wrote

A threat from this guy or one of his criminal associates (by which I mean "fellow cops") is a lot more credible than the words of a few angry redditors.

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shogi_x t1_j6oznqt wrote

Who said anything about angry redditors? At least 320 people were convicted on cases he was involved in. That's a long list of people with motive.

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PEVEI t1_j6otvh4 wrote

So now your conspiracy theory is that cops threatened an ADA and forced her to end her career, and instead of reporting those threats and making her career, she submitted. Now everyone involved is sworn to eternal silence, despite public pressure.

It's so simple, how could no one else have thought of this!

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Asleep-Somewhere-404 t1_j6ox8qy wrote

The money or a body bag. It’s not that fine a line.

I’d say there is more to this than “I just forgot to send it”.

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Metraxis t1_j6phbw3 wrote

This is New York, not Juarez. "Plata o plomo" is a little far-fetched.

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PyramidClub t1_j6p6kt2 wrote

She followed orders.

Her boss was the same guy who tanked the case against Trump.

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