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bilgerat57 wrote:

Jumping Frog wrote:

philip964 wrote:Interesting the difference between Texas and Ohio. They have to constantly sue the government to get their rights under the constitution and Ohio law.

What is going on here is the prosecutor knows that the city is facing a lot of liability from a civil suit, so they are desperately trying to push through any kind of criminal conviction so that it will help their defense in the civil rights case.

Given the nature and degree of the evidence against the officer, I would think that the best course would be for them to dismiss the charges and hammer the officer into the ground, then tell the civil case jury, "Yes an error was made and we vigorously corrected it!" You can bet that man's attorney will use the criminal proceedings to inflame the civil jury against the govt. and township. Even if they win the criminal case it's going to bite them on the backside. I wouldn't be surprised if the feds get called to investigate possible civil rights violations by the PD since this is not the only incident involving this officer.