{"id":6251,"date":"2011-11-09T13:32:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T13:32:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T13:32:49","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6251","title":{"rendered":"Good lawyering exposes police perjury in a pot search case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philly.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.philly.com\/2011-11-04\/news\/30359911_1_drunken-driving-case-open-and-shut-case-testimony\">Video of pot bust spotlights lapses by police<\/a> by Nathan Gorenstein: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It looked like an open-and-shut case. A cop pulls over a car, walks up to the driver&#8217;s door, and sees a plastic baggy of marijuana. He brings in a drug-sniffing dog to prove probable cause for a search, gets a warrant, and finds a kilo of weed in the trunk.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what Officer Steven Lupo put in his report and testified to in Philadelphia Municipal Court.<\/p>\n<p>Then defense attorney Michael Diamondstein produced the video.<\/p>\n<p>Turned out reality was different.<\/p>\n<p>The video taken from nearby surveillance cameras contradicted key facts in Lupo&#8217;s report and sworn testimony. Most crucially, Lupo and an unidentified supervisor are seen rummaging through the trunk hours before a warrant was issued. On the witness stand just moments before the video was played, Lupo emphatically denied that had occurred.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6251\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6251","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}