{"id":10957,"date":"2014-04-15T13:16:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T18:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10957"},"modified":"2014-04-15T13:16:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T18:16:29","slug":"chicago-tribune-5-cops-caught-in-lies-on-witness-stand-judge-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10957","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Tribune: 5 cops caught in lies on witness stand, judge says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Tribune: <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.chicagotribune.com\/2014-04-15\/news\/ct-police-testimony-lies-met-20140415_1_police-officers-five-officers-chicago-police\">5 cops caught in lies on witness stand, judge says<\/a> by Steve Schmadeke:<\/p>\n<p>In a &#8216;Perry Mason&#8217; moment, a video played in court contradicts police officers who testified their drug arrest was proper.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One by one, five police officers took the witness stand at the Skokie courthouse late last month for what would typically be a routine hearing on whether evidence in a drug case was properly obtained.<\/p>\n<p>But in a &#8220;Perry Mason&#8221; moment rarely seen inside an actual courtroom, the inquiry took a surprising turn when the suspect&#8217;s lawyer played a police video that contradicted the sworn testimony of the five officers \u2014 three from Chicago and two from Glenview, a furious judge found.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Tribune: 5 cops caught in lies on witness stand, judge says by Steve Schmadeke: In a &#8216;Perry Mason&#8217; moment, a video played in court contradicts police officers who testified their drug arrest was proper.<\/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-10957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10958,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10957\/revisions\/10958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}