{"id":302,"date":"2016-11-14T15:02:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T20:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myphillylawyer.adviadev.com\/?page_id=302"},"modified":"2025-06-03T17:24:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T22:24:52","slug":"cops-acting-above-the-law","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/practice-areas\/criminal-defense\/cops-acting-above-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops Acting Above The Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>When Cops Cross the Line, Justice Suffers<\/h4>\n<p>When police officers are accused of wrongdoing, their actions cast a shadow of doubt across the work of ethical officers and the criminal justice system in general.<\/p>\n<p>Learn about the allegations surrounding a Philadelphia narcotics detective who has been accused of conspiring with a confidential informant to fabricate evidence in order to get search warrants. Attorney Dean Weitzman and his guests, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/practice-areas\/criminal-defense\/\">criminal defense attorney<\/a> Kenneth Edelin Jr. and attorney David M. Rapoport discuss the legal issues involved in this case.<\/p>\n<p>They also address the actions of Luzerne County judges, who took millions of dollars in kickbacks for sentencing young people to a private juvenile detention center.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the Full Show: <strong>Cops Acting Above the Law Court Radio Podcast<\/strong> Dean I. Weitzman is joined by Kenneth Edelin, Jr. and David M. Rapoport. Original Air Date: Feb. 22, 2009. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Fast Facts from This Week&#8217;s Show<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A narcotics officer and a confidential police informant were accused of falsifying information about suspected drug activity in order to get judges to sign off on search warrants.<\/li>\n<li>One of the people convicted on such a warrant was facing life in prison.<\/li>\n<li>The officer was renting a property he owned to the informant, an ethically questionable involvement that compromised the professional relationship.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our panel of lawyers also answers callers&#8217; questions on avoiding inheritance tax, dealing with a probation violation and contract enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>A production of WRNB-FM radio in Philadelphia, Court Radio is brought to you each week by MyPhillyLawyer.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Cops Cross the Line, Justice Suffers When police officers are accused of wrongdoing, their actions cast a shadow of doubt across the work of ethical officers and the criminal justice system in general. Learn about the allegations surrounding a Philadelphia narcotics detective who has been accused of conspiring with a confidential informant to fabricate&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":31,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-302","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12797,"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302\/revisions\/12797"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}