Louisville narcotics detectives used forged search warrants

City settles suits over drug cases
Detectives used forged warrants

By Gregory A. Hall

The Courier-Journal

Saturday, November 26, 2005

Louisville metro government has agreed to pay $30,000 to settle two lawsuits involving two former narcotics detectives involved in Jefferson County's largest police scandal in decades.

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The civil lawsuits stem from more than 50 criminal cases involving former detectives Mark Watson and Christie Richardson in which charges were dismissed or convictions erased because of the two detectives' conduct.

Watson is serving a 20-year sentence after pleading guilty in January 2003 to 299 felonies and three misdemeanors for using photocopied judges' signatures on search warrants and using them to enter people's homes.

Richardson is on probation after a jury convicted her in February 2003 on 20 felony charges, including 19 counts of tampering with public records and one count of criminal possession of a forged instrument. The jury also found her guilty of official misconduct, a misdemeanor.

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Lower than maggot shit.

or job security as I think of it.

May they all rot in prison, where they sent many people for the possession of a little pot, the bastards.

And the sentence handed down to "Christy Richardson"

"...on probation after a jury convicted her in February 2003 on 20 felony charges, including 19 counts of tampering with public records and one count of criminal possession of a forged instrument."

That seems a little light to me, personally.

When USA declared "War" upon its own poplulace it was a dark, dark day! The fallout from a drug charge usually harms teh individual W-A-Y more than the drugs themslelves. Fuck it, I'm gonna go roll a fat one!

for kicks

But we've got to remember this is Louisville, where it's OK for cops to pump bullets into a handcuffed suspect.

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/LAW/02/24/police.shooting.ap/