A Lubbock County jury has found Tom Coleman guilty on one count of aggravated perjury and not guilty on another.
Last year, 45 of those arrested split a $6 million settlement of a civil rights lawsuit against Coleman and the 26 counties and three cities involved with the drug task force for which he worked.
Retribution isn't going to be pretty for this man.
A Lubbock County jury has found Tom Coleman guilty on one count of aggravated perjury and not guilty on another.
It was actually June 1998.
Yeah, let's lock him up for 10 years because he guessed wrong and was off by 2 months.
He's going to really enjoy prison.
The Texas district attorney who prosecuted many of the now-discredited 1999 Tulia drug arrests was found guilty of drunken driving and sentenced to two days in jail.More on ex drug agent Coleman:
In April, Tonya White proved she was in Oklahoma at the time she supposedly sold drugs to Coleman in Tulia. Bank records showed that White had made a deposit at her bank in Oklahoma the same day that Coleman said she sold drugs to him in Tulia. - http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/072402/reg_0724020068.shtml
Bryant’s case, like virtually all of the cases in the sting, rested almost entirely on the testimony of undercover agent Tom Coleman. But Coleman’s physical description of Bryant in his report was nowhere near accurate, and the district attorney was forced to drop the charges - http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=719
Another defendant, Billy Don Wafer, was able to prove — through employee time sheets and his boss's testimony — that he was working at the time he was alleged by Mr. Coleman to have been selling cocaine. - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/723818/posts
46 lives ruined. Kill the animal that did it.
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If he is brutally and slowly murdered by other inmates, he will have gotten off too easily.
To answer a couple of stupid questions from a JBT:
"Gov. Rick Perry pardoned 35 of the defendants in 2003, after an investigation into the drug cases was launched amid charges they were racially motivated. It was during the investigation that Coleman made his false statement in court.
Coleman could not prosecuted for testimony he gave at the drug defendants' trials because the statute of limitations had expired."
Libertarian ping.To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here. I don't know the background of this case, but if the man was merely off by 2 months about an event five years previous, then isn't it conceivable that he just was wrong in his memory rather than lying about it?