A veteran NYPD detective is in danger of losing his job . A slaying suspect gets his sentence cut to a slap on the wrist joint , even though he was hitch on surveillance camera shooting a humanity in the face in a Bronx elevator . Why ? A petty reddened MP3 actor that was stashed in the gun ’s air pocket during the interrogation .
you’re able to picture the scene . A kid was capture on surveillance camera fool a guy in a Bronx elevator . The kid tells the NYPD detective that he ’d been threatened . The tec was coolheaded with that but wanted to grill the guy cable for extra info , like what happened to the gun . The trouble was , this whole confab was maneuver outside the whole “ Miranda rights ” infinite . The investigator know this , saying “ Our conversation right now does not exist . ” And it would have disappeared into the wispy past had it not been for an MP3 player in the kid ’s pocket , a Christmas gift from a few days originally , which had a Record button .
The shooter captured the whole schmooze , which he by and by burned to CD and distributed in Margaret Court . Now the detective is up for 12 felony counts of lying under oath ( for having deny the conversation ever took place ) and the tyke , who ’s best option was originally a supplication - bargain of 15 years , was suddenly offered one for just 7 days .
Is this justice ? Or is this unfairness ? More significantly , what MP3 player was it ? This was December 2005 , the unknown MP3 player was red , and there was one - soupcon or some other very sluttish recording capableness , so it was n’t an iPod . Nor was it an unborn Zune , what the rocket scientists at ABC News used toillustrate this tale . get ’s hear your best armchair forensics guesswork . [ NYT ]
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