Laurie Levenson, a law professor at LMU Loyola Law School, said “a major police corruption case” like this one is “relatively rare and they’re not easy to win.”
“In this particular case, what might be the greatest help to the prosecutors are other officers who have pled guilty and agreed to cooperate,” Levenson said, “because in order to win these cases, you often need an insider who explains what kind of misconduct was going on with the police and that they were acting intentionally. That’s the type of evidence that jurors will pay attention to.”
Source: KQED-FM
Former Antioch Officers Face Trial for Alleged Conspiracy, Civil Rights Violations
