N&O: Officer Faced Accusation Before (Larry Harris case)

SFN told you of this development on April 12th. The N&O follows up with more details today.

Raleigh police conducted an investigation but did not find that Officer Robert W. King committed perjury during a May 3, 2006, court trial, according to correspondence sent to and from Wake District Court Judge Jennifer Knox. But she felt that the Police Department didn’t perform a thorough investigation and had “skewed findings,” she wrote.

“Officer King does not have a reputation for truthfulness,” Knox wrote in a Dec. 20, 2006, letter to Dawn Bryant, the attorney for the Raleigh Police Department.

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15 Responses to N&O: Officer Faced Accusation Before (Larry Harris case)

  1. redfred2 05/15/2007 at 9:56 AM #

    “”Any police officer that does his or her job is subject to a multitude of complaints,” Midgette said. King is a PBA member, he said.”

    What does bowling have to do with this?

  2. Mr O 05/15/2007 at 10:01 AM #

    Is any officer subject to a judge’s claims that they have perjured themselves under oath?

  3. PackGirl 05/15/2007 at 10:01 AM #

    “A videotape from King’s patrol car that recorded the encounter is not being made publicly available because it will be evidence in the criminal case against Harris, Raleigh police have said.”

    Evidence against Harris, or against King? Hopefully the latter.

  4. MadWolf92 05/15/2007 at 10:02 AM #

    ^ Red, I’m disturbed. I made the same association!

    I’m just glad they’re not using the mug shot any more.

  5. redfred2 05/15/2007 at 10:18 AM #

    “I’m disturbed.”

    Join the crowd.

  6. smfrank 05/15/2007 at 10:48 AM #
  7. Red_Terrors 05/15/2007 at 11:42 AM #

    ^smfrank, I knew it was too good to be true. Did anyone happen to catch picture 10 out of 11? Stinking tarholes.

  8. BillyTheKid 05/15/2007 at 12:21 PM #

    smfrank, why does it say that Sid is a former football player?

  9. Pack92 05/15/2007 at 1:07 PM #

    Red_Terrors don’t worry too much about picture 10. The unx moron was about to watch his girlfriend go home with the State guy. It wasn’t the first time that has happened. Some pictures tell a different story than what is immediately obvious!

    I felt sorry for the fans at the Maryland game. PR’s last home game and it ends with yet one more “turnover anytime” mishap.

  10. PapaJohn 05/15/2007 at 1:14 PM #

    A quick tangent – heard on the news this morning that both Sid and Kay Yow got one year contract extensions.

  11. BoKnowsNCS71 05/15/2007 at 2:00 PM #

    Seems to me that if the police car video was evidence against the police officer, the RPD would have dropped the charges against Harris.

    That is of course unless the videotape is not that incriminating and/or they want to plea this all to no charges and avoid a follow up law suit by Harris. Dropping charges might be seen as the acceptance of guilt on the part of RPD so they could just hope to settle this all out of court.

    Too many ways this could go.

  12. redfred2 05/16/2007 at 8:29 AM #

    I think the RPD would have already suspended King a while back and publicly admonished him if this thing were anywhere close to cut and dry. If the RPD doesn’t have evidence that absolutely proves their officer in the right here, I think dragging it out, and with the reports showing up in the newspapers, will be much more damaging than a quick admission of guilt and a promise to be more vigilant in the future.

    It’ll be bad publicity for NCSU if Harris is convicted, but it will be much worse for the RPD if their officer who’s involved this, a second incident, is not cleared 100 percent without a single question left unanswered. I am not liking the fact that it hasn’t been settled already.

  13. PamlicoPack 05/16/2007 at 1:55 PM #

    red, I think you are vastly overestimating the efficiency of Raleigh’s finest…remember, they are functioning without a Chief right now, and its the Chief that tends to these sort of PR/public image sorts of incidents…

  14. redfred2 05/18/2007 at 9:43 AM #

    Pamlico

    I hope you’re right, not for the residents of Raleigh of course, but I’m thinking that in something like this the RPD should have detached litigators, functioning independantly of the department, and determining which course of action is best. I don’t think that any Chief, fully functioning or not, would be making any legal determinations involving lawsuits against the department anyway.

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