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Mar 10 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
A nice example of police testilying from the 5th Circuit. #appellatetwitter

drive.google.com/file/d/1ipnvuZ…

"Ducksworth was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest." 1/
"At Ducksworth’s municipal trial Landrum submitted an affidavit claiming that Ducksworth unlawfully refused to follow Landrum’s commands to leave the car wash." 2/
"But on the stand, Landrum admitted that this affidavit was inaccurate because he had not ordered Ducksworth to leave the premises—only Welch had." 3/
"Landrum also submitted an incident report, which said the car wash manager told the officers that Ducksworth refused to leave the car wash. At the municipal trial, Landrum testified that this portion of the report was 'somewhat' inaccurate." 4/
So an officer tasered someone who had paid for a car wash and wanted to receive the services he paid for. Then he filed a false report trying to justify the tasing by saying that the car wash manager ordered him to leave the premises, when in fact only another cop did. End/

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We will start with journalists. For them, the rule is simple- they have a constitutional right to publish any material of public concern, with only one exception. 1/
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