Washington, DC—They say DNA and fingerprint evidence does not
lie and that’s for the most part a correct statement. However those government officials involved
in the investigation, collection, preservation and examination of evidence
occasionally do some horrible things.
When that happens often it is a perfect crime, because proving such a
case is almost impossible.
In 1990, Shirley Kinge was convicted in an arson/murder case
that where four people perished. The
investigator involved was truly a Golden Boy, New York State Police Trooper,
Robert M. Lishansky. He was an 11 year
veteran of that agency and considered one of their brightest and best
investigators.
Lishansky was lifting prints from plain paper copies of
filed inked fingerprint cards with standard lifting tape and then claiming he
lifted them at crime scenes. At crime
scenes latent prints are made visible by dusting them with a fine black powder
that sticks to the latent print oily material.
The tape is then used to lift the print image and then placed on a white card where it can be
clearly observed, photographed and classified for comparison with the prints of
potential suspects.
The prints “collected” by Lishansky always looked identical
to those normally found at crime scenes.
However under special, non-routine scientific analysis the chemical makeup of the black
material was copier toner, not fingerprint dusting powder! Lisansky walked into courtroom after
courtroom and gave perjured testimony with a straight face destroying lives
along the way. Lishansky was schooled in
the frame-up procedure by his police supervisor, David Harding.
While being considered for a CIA position Lishansky’s supervisor
David Harding was proving his skills as a secret agent to CIA official. Harding bragged that he could frame anyone for
murder and explained his techniques with some recent examples. Harding may have been delusional in that he
felt that this conduct was acceptable, or was he? Just what did Harding’s superiors really
know? The CIA blew the whistle on
Harding and before it was over he confessed to fingerprint tampering in
numerous cases.
Lishansky was convicted and sentenced from 6 to 18 years in
prison. Harding was sentenced to from 4 to 12 years.
The real rub here is that the victims of the frame-ups all
were put in prison for much longer terms on the basis of the falsified
evidence. Thankfully New York abolished
the death penalty or Shirley Kinge would have been sent straight to Death Row. Kinge was released from prison soon
after the tampering came to light.
Lishansky and Harding were dangerous serial criminals with
police badges. Under the laws of our
states and the Federal Government a single incident of evidence tampering and
perjury would normally allow for probation even if it involved a death penalty
case. Since this and many other cases
involving corrupt crime lab technicians the penalties have not been increased.
We must change our laws to at least make perjury and
evidence-tampering crimes carry the same penalty that the falsely accused and
prosecuted victim was facing. Here the
cops framing innocents got prison only because it involved numerous cases.
Great commentary-sad that this can happen,and rarely happens.
ReplyDeleteExcellent essay. From planting guns to planting prints... Heck, with all this, I'm not sure OJ wasn't framed.
ReplyDeleteOh, and I got here from Lew Rockwell's page. It's the first news site I check every day.
ReplyDeleteFat chance of that happening. And the tragic thing is that the more police do this sort of thing, the more the citizenry, the very people they are attempting to protect, hate the police. A situation like this has a nasty habit of exploding. See North America 1775 or France 1789 or Russia 1917 for details.
ReplyDeleteWow ........ what a shock!!!!!!!! Say it ain't so!!!!! A dirty cop.......gasp!!!!!!!! I thought the first prerequisite to be a cop is you have to be a dirt bag
ReplyDeleteare the perjuring creeps in the general population, as their victims were? bet not. after all, being part of the state apparatus, they are of a 'finer clay' than we, no matter their actions.
ReplyDeleteif on a jury and the only 'witness' is a cop, vote innocent...regardless of the 'evidence'.
Falsified evidence should result in at least the criminal serving the amount of time that the person they victimized served.
ReplyDeletePolice planting evidence? More and more it is shown that it has been common practice all along for both investigators and prosecutors. Gerald Celente is correct, it's not the Justice system, it's the "Just Us" system. And woe be to those who get snapped up in it.
ReplyDeleteThe only remotely possible hope of putting a stop to these crimes is to take criminal forensic investigations completely out of the hands of the cops and the courts - and to keep both of the latter as far away from forensic labs and technicians as possible. Eliminate (or at least severely reduce) the possibility of evidence tampering and the problem will go away.
ReplyDeleteGovernment is the tool used by the worst people to do the most damage to the rest of us. And the belief that most people have, that it is necessary, is a testament to the fine job of brainwashing the masses, the ruling class has done.
ReplyDeleteThe police world is RIFE with golden boys and girls.These people are totally taken care of and protected.They are the norm and not the exception in specialty and rank positions!!
ReplyDelete30% merit my ass,its 100%.