Manhattan Public Defender: Incident all too familiar
"Im a public defender in Manhattan. The Central Park video is all too familiar"In cases Ive taken to trial, the district attorney has offered recordings of hysterical 911 calls as evidence of my clients guilt, urging the jury to just listen to the fear in her voice, saying, You can tell she can sense a threat, and asking questions such as, Why would she lie? All too often, it works.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/im-a-public-defender-in-manhattan-the-central-park-video-is-all-too-familiar/2020/05/26/73c3de60-9f99-11ea-81bb-c2f70f01034b_story.html
Bettie
(15,997 posts)how disgusting.
JustAnotherGen
(31,681 posts)New York Consolidated Laws, Penal Law - PEN § 240.50 Falsely reporting an incident in the third degree
A person is guilty of falsely reporting an incident in the third degree when, knowing the information reported, conveyed or circulated to be false or baseless, he or she:
1.?Initiates or circulates a false report or warning of an alleged occurrence or impending occurrence of a crime, catastrophe or emergency under circumstances in which it is not unlikely that public alarm or inconvenience will result; ?or
2.?Reports, by word or action, to an official or quasi-official agency or organization having the function of dealing with emergencies involving danger to life or property, an alleged occurrence or impending occurrence of a catastrophe or emergency which did not in fact occur or does not in fact exist; ?or
3.?Gratuitously reports to a law enforcement officer or agency (a) the alleged occurrence of an offense or incident which did not in fact occur; ?or (b) an allegedly impending occurrence of an offense or incident which in fact is not about to occur; ?or (c) false information relating to an actual offense or incident or to the alleged implication of some person therein; ?or . . .
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She broke the law.