A question of evidence - the five minute gap
A possible case of taking the law into ones own hands.
From the
FOX/AP:
Police: No Video of Inmate's Death
Internal reports at the Prince George's County jail reveal that a video camera failed to record the first five minutes when guards arrived in a cell to find a dead inmate.
The Washington Post reports it reviewed 13 statements that guards, supervisors and jail nurses provided to internal investigators on the day 19-year-old Ronnie White was found dead.
The statements show that a hand-held camera, which guards are required to use when responding to emergencies in cells, malfunctioned and did not record the time when guards entered White's cell and started CPR and called 911.
The camera did not start recording until after White was removed on a stretcher and his cell was ordered shut.
White was found June 29 in his jail cell, several days after he was arrested in the hit-and-run death of Cpl. Richard Findley during a traffic stop. Maryland's chief medical examiner has ruled that White was strangled.
I do not doubt that White was responsible for the death of Officer Findley. Traffic stops are recorded these days so the evidence should be very clear.
That being said, White deserved due process as an American Citizen.
I would not want to be the officers in question.
Still, odd lapses of evidence are
not unheard of...
Posted by DaveH at November 10, 2008 7:40 PM