The Wall Street Journal reports on police officers lying under oath. Apparently a few perjurers have tainted the rest:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123319367364627211.html

JAS

From the article:

It is an open secret long shared by prosecutors, defense lawyers and judges that perjury is widespread among law enforcement officers," though it's difficult to detect in specific cases, said Alex Kozinski, a federal appeals-court judge, in the 1990s. That's because the exclusionary rule "sets up a great incentive for...police to lie."

[Judge Kozinski might have some bias against law enforcement, having recently been the target of accusations he posted porn on his personal website. Details.]

Consider also the appeals court of which he is the chief judge.

Yeah, they lost another case before SCOTUS recently -- unanimously. Some evidence that the 9th Circuit might still be out of step with mainstream legal thinking.

More about the good judge...

HERE

and

here

And from a very funny federal judiciary website called Underneath Their Robes comes this interesting self-opinion from 2004:

A very high self opinion

Kind of shows what lifetime appointment can do for your ego.

Police lying is "an open secret" amongst prosecutors, judges, and defense attys?

How come no one told me? And I've been going to TDCAA training for years, and even there I never learned about this secret.

I feel really left out.