This goes to show how absurdly pro-defendant the legal system has been tilting for the last few decades. The trial of a man who brutally murdered his girlfriend and her kids is in jeopardy because the cops turned away defense attorneys as he confessed to the killings.
How outrageous is this?
Deputies used a variety of legal pretexts to claim they could keep Covington isolated without legal advice.They maintained he had not officially been arrested but had been ‘detained’, despite being handcuffed to a hospital bed, and that the constitutional guarantee of a defense attorney didn’t yet apply. Only after Covington confessed to the crimes – after being moved to an interrogation cell at the Sheriff’s Office – did deputies tell him that lawyers from the Public Defender’s Office had been trying to see him. Covington’s defense team is now arguing that law enforcement’s decision to sequester him from attorneys — going so far as to register him under a false name at a hospital — violated his constitutional rights, and that his confession should be tossed.
It’s a given that if this obviously guilty creep walks, groups like the ACLU will celebrate his release.
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Where are Dexter and Charles Bronson? They would take care of this loser.
ReplyDeletePolice corruption biting them in the behind, at our expense.
ReplyDeleteAlways at our expense, whether it is done to the innocent or guilty.
If the bed don't fit... you must acquit.
ReplyDeleteI'm soooo surprise no has blame Obama and/or the democrats for this mistake.
ReplyDeleteThe guy who broke into my house and stole 8k worth of guns almost walked because weather or not the officer was in his yard when he took a picture of his truck. The picture led to a warrant which led to my stuff being found in his house, everything stolen except guns....
ReplyDelete7:38 both cops are Democrats. Sorry had to say it
ReplyDeleteObviously our justice system has broken down. Can vigilante justice be more wrong than the status quo? Bottom line, get a gun, use it and shoot the perp in the head before he can lawyer up.
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