{"id":58998,"date":"2024-10-02T10:47:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T15:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=58998"},"modified":"2024-10-02T10:47:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T15:47:50","slug":"reason-a-houston-drug-cops-murder-conviction-highlights-the-potentially-deadly-consequences-of-testifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=58998","title":{"rendered":"Reason: A Houston Drug Cop&#8217;s Murder Conviction Highlights the Potentially Deadly Consequences of &#8216;Testifying&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reason: <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/10\/02\/a-houston-drug-cops-murder-conviction-highlights-the-potentially-deadly-consequences-of-testilying\/\">A Houston Drug Cop&#8217;s Murder Conviction Highlights the Potentially Deadly Consequences of &#8216;Testifying&#8217;<\/a> by Jacob Sullum (\u201cIt is hard to say how often this sort of thing happens, since prosecutors, judges, and jurors tend to discount the protestations of drug defendants\u2014especially if they have prior convictions\u2014and automatically accept the testimony of cops like [former narcotics officer Gerald] Goines, who are presumed to be honest and dedicated public servants. But similar scandals in cities such as Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and San Francisco show the problem of &#8216;testilying&#8217; is not limited to Houston. &#8230;  Similar scandals across the country suggest the problem is widespread.&#8221;)<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reason: A Houston Drug Cop&#8217;s Murder Conviction Highlights the Potentially Deadly Consequences of &#8216;Testifying&#8217; by Jacob Sullum (\u201cIt is hard to say how often this sort of thing happens, since prosecutors, judges, and jurors tend to discount the protestations of &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=58998\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58999,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58998\/revisions\/58999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}