Political Trials Of Police Officers Keep Destroying Lives - The Rob Maness Show EP 199

This is the story of former Montgomery Alabama Police Officer Aaron Cody Smith. Due to the political air across our nation at the time of the shooting, the city of Montgomery was afraid of riots and turmoil, so they decided to railroad this officer who was one of the best at his job and who followed his use of force training to a T. The Montgomery County District Attorney was up for re-election and saw prosecuting this officer as an opportunity to gain votes, with no care whatsoever to the life he was ruining in the process. Now Officer Smith is rotting in jail on a political charge conviction. Smith's case went all the way up to the Alabama Supreme Court, and although his conviction was recently upheld, many of the justices on the court wrote that it's hard to understand how if the facts presented were true, Smith be found guilty but for an incompetent defense and a trial that left him at the mercy of a social movement and political furor. These false charges and convictions are destroying lives and our justice system.