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Originally Posted by Ben E Lou
If your defense is "I was worried that I didn't do my job correctly," a decent prosecutor is gonna flip that one around on you with "just like she herself was concerned that she did her job poorly by not clearing the car, we the people should get this officer off the street because she did her job poorly by shooting with no cause." I wouldn't want to go down that road if I were her.
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Right. Declaring yourself to be incompetent in searching the car opens yourself up to all sorts of questions as to whether you were incompetent in firing your weapon. Her lawyer would be horrified if she said that.