Scorching Complaint Against SF Police (bribing witnesses, etc
Scorching Complaint Against SF Police
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - A man whose life sentence for a drive-by shooting was overturned claims San Francisco police paid witnesses to lie at his trial and suppressed evidence that would have exonerated him.
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Conley says he suffered severe trauma in prison, including being stabbed and witnessing the murder of a fellow inmate.
Conley says he had nothing to do with the shooting, and was not arrested until 3 years afterward.
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Conley claims: "Sanders's misconduct was made possible because of the City's and the SFPD's official policies enabling the suppression of evidence of payments to testifying witnesses and their failure to train and supervise police officers regarding their constitutional obligations."
Conley was sentenced to life without possibility of parole in 1995. In 2006, after years of unsuccessful appeals, he says, he discovered evidence of bribes paid to Clifford Polk, one of the witnesses against him. He filed a habeas petition in the California Supreme Court that year.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/02/01/43523.htm
