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 Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 5:08 am Post subject: Tales of a Dallas Poker Raid |
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http://www.theagitator.com/archives/027726.php#027726
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The raid occurred around 7:40 p.m. I was in the kitchen area which was just inside the front door when suddenly there was loud banging from the door. Within seconds, the room was full of Dallas SWAT officers yelling for everyone to put their hands in the air. Behind the Dallas SWAT team came many more law enforcement officers and several camera crews for the A&E reality show, Dallas SWAT. The camera crew�s chests were clearly marked as �A&E Film Crew.�
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About a month later, my attorney calls me and tells me the charges are being dropped. I ask him about the videotape. He tells me he still hasn�t received it�the ADAs just called him and told him they had watched it and the charges were being dropped. I was never given any copy of the tape at all.
The curious thing is that my attorney represents some of the dealers/operators of the poker game. He has several more cases pending and told the ADAs, �Guys, sooner or later, you�ve got to give me that tape on one of these other cases.� They still have not produced any videotape.
I am still contemplating what to do. I am probably going to file a report on the officer for making a false arrest report. I doubt it will do much good, as I know all too well from reading your site and others how these cover-ups happen. It�s sad that so many law enforcement officers are unwilling to follow the law themselves, and I see how these railroad jobs happen. Like Reed Seligmann, the Duke lacrosse player, expressed the other day: I had the means and wherewithal to take care of this. What happens to those defendants who are not so situated? Furthermore, how are defendants not, as a matter of course, entitled to copies of any videotape filmed at a crime scene by either the police or their agents? Perhaps there should be a presumption that missing videos would have proven what the defendant claims they prove...perhaps that would make some of these videotapes survive. |
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