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If the court knew it was a reenactment then that's one thing, but if the officer attempted to pass-off the footage as legitimate then he needs to be found in-contempt.

From the the source article it seems that the prosecutor did not know at first. It came out only after a prosecutor noticed some discrepancies between the body cam footage and the report and asked the officer to clarify.

Jensen replied back, saying, "For the search, the body cam shows different than the report because it was. Prior to turning my body cam on I conducted the search. Once I found the (expletive referring to evidence), I stepped back, called (a fellow officer), then activated my body cam and walked the courts through it."

Mayer then replied back, “Was that in the report? If not you’ve got to write a supplement explaining that your body cam was off during the search and that the body cam that does exist is a reenactment.”

Now I have to give props to the prosecutor for alerting the defense and the court about it. They could have buried it.

Has making false statements to police ever been used against the police? Seems that it should qualify if an officer lies about the circumstances in official reports.

There is now an investigation and we'll see. Most likely no. The problem is that since it was "re-enacted" without disclosing the fact gives the appearance that it could have been planted. If the officer had turned on his body cam right after and merely declared "I found this gun here a minute ago. . ." most people would have given the officer the benefit of a doubt.

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/cops-mineola-meter-reader-was-burglar-1.3158332

http://www.chieftain.com/news/crime_beat/suspected-burglar-posed-as-meter-reader/article_f265261c-425e-11e1-b23c-0019bb2963f4.html

Not every piddling crime makes it into the big-time newspapers.

The chopper didn't fare so well:

http://www.chieftain.com/news/local/article_dff0b04e-c2eb-11df-942c-001cc4c03286.html

To the best of my knowledge, all jails record phone calls. I'm sure they intercept the dialed number as well as the calls. Getting the number the technical way, especially when it's tapped out by hand, is harder than just listening to the operator saying "Operator, please connect me to 212 555 1212".

    They have a bit less interest in the phone number than the actual conversation.

    Most inmates are in prison for a reason. They got caught, usually because they made stupid mistakes. Their first call out may say all kinds of interesting things like "get all the drugs out from under my bed and get rid of them" or "I didn't finish getting rid of the body, it's in the trunk of a black sedan parked on 5th street", or "Wipe out all the porn on my computer, I'm in enough trouble already."

    It sounds stupid, but this story came out today. Here's a little bit of the story. The version I heard on the radio was much nastier, since they discussed details on exactly how it was to be done.

The father of a Florence prison inmate was accused Monday of trying to bring heroin into the prison and expecting to receive $22,000 after his son distributed the heroin to other inmates.

Donald Curtis Denney was arrested Friday inside the Federal Correctional Institution by the FBI and was charged Monday with possessing heroin with the intent of distributing it.

FBI agent Harry Deal of Pueblo wrote in a court affidavit that a substance believed to be heroin, wrapped in plastic and placed inside the finger portion of a rubber glove, was found in a body cavity of Denney.

This is nothing that hasn't been done before. The Denver Broncos' head coach is a living example of this.

Mike Shanahan: http://www.chieftain.com/archive/2003/dec/5/sptPBS105BRONCOSBENGALS.jpg

Animal Embryo source: http://www.noblepest.com/images/brown-rat.jpg

This is the difference: this man used to be in control, this man is in control.

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