Minneapolis: Drug case falls apart, raising questions about existence of secret informant

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-drug-case-falls-apart-raising-questions-about-existence-of-secret-informant/600056732/

The officers left that day with one handgun, 2 pounds of meth and Moore in zip ties. If convicted, Moore faced 13 years in prison.

But it didn't go that way. Over the next seven months, what had looked like a rock-solid case turned to dust as two public defenders uncovered what a judge called a "reckless disregard for truth" in the police investigation.

Chief among the questions that unraveled the case: Did Minneapolis police officer Tony Partyka embellish key information from a trusted informant — or worse?

"We think that the confidential informant in this case may not have existed," said Tanya Bishop, one of Moore's public defenders.

A system like this cannot be reformed.

[Humanist_Activist]

1. I do wonder about the merits of our adversarial "justice" system...

there are huge incentives for prosecutors and police to lie and fabricate or withhold exculpatory evidence, and there is evidence that this isn't as rare as people would like to think. Add on top the racial bias and the bias present in our laws and you have a recipe for the US being the worse carceral state on the planet.