Reply #4: just sounds like an easy excuse if the cop is found out... [View All]

[progdonkey]

I wouldn't be surprised if the routine is to plant the evidence to get the "suspect" up on stronger charges, knowing that the defendant won't have the ability to challenge it if they don't specifically see the planting. You'd have a cop on one hand saying he found it in the vehicle, and all the defendant could say is, "I don't know how that got in there, but it's not mine."

But if the cop's caught doing it, they just say it's part of a "training exercise." See, we were just playing around; we wouldn't have let you go to jail because of that, honest!