Another Florida Deputy Caught Planting Drugs

[paednoch23]

Desantis will want him on his new Election Gestapo unit.

Gazpacho. Get it right.

 

[seminole97]

I have an 8th Amendment question for you all. The wording in the Constitution says, "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted." My question is this; does this Amendment forbid cruel punishments and unusual punishments or does the punishment have to be both cruel and unusual to be forbidden? And if the latter, can't judges impose wildly cruel punishments provided they imposed them on a lot of people thus making them no longer unusual?

'cruel and unusual' was a term of art to avoid using the word "torture". But that's how it should be understood.

Akin to how they avoided using the word 'slave' in the fugitive slave clause:

No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due.

 

[Hoosierhawkeye]

Given the sheer number of law enforcement agencies in the country, incidents like these are still exceeding rare. Yes, they are brought to light a lot more often these days, which is good, but they are a prime example of the missing tile syndrome.
Law enforcement and the legal system need to show zero leniency in cases like this, first offense or not. Things like this cause far more harm to the greater society than the drugs they planted on their victim.

I agree. . . this isn't as common as it's made out to be.

That said people found guilty of this deserve to be in prison for decades if not the rest of their lives.

Not only have they potentially jailed hundreds if not thousands of people for no cause what so ever. They have created a massive headache for the legal system because anyone convicted in part based on what this guy "found" deserves to have their entire case reviewed.

On top of all of that it strongly undermines confidence in the system. Which makes people feel (legitimately or not) that they won't get a fair shake by the system and it furthermore makes life more difficult for good officers because it causes members of the public to distrust police officers.

 

[TC Nole OX]

I agree. . . this isn't as common as it's made out to be.

That said people found guilty of this deserve to be in prison for decades if not the rest of their lives.

Not only have they potentially jailed hundreds if not thousands of people for no cause what so ever. They have created a massive headache for the legal system because anyone convicted in part based on what this guy "found" deserves to have their entire case reviewed.

On top of all of that it strongly undermines confidence in the system. Which makes people feel (legitimately or not) that they won't get a fair shake by the system and it furthermore makes life more difficult for good officers because it causes members of the public to distrust police officers.

Case in point....the #1 drug interdiction trooper in Texas. He committed 25 felonies just in a 6 month period that was captured on video. He barely received a slap on the wrist. He was given 2 years deferred probation and will likely be a police officer again