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Claiming cases tainted by police, convicted dealers seek new trials
Posted Feb 7, 2013
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Philadelphia Inquirer
In the first organized effort to overturn convictions obtained by a controversial police narcotics team, dozens of convicted drug dealers are seeking new trials. Temple law professor Edward Ohlbaum said convicts routinely are freed from prisons when they can prove they did not receive fair trials. He cited Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo's lament that "the criminal is to go free because the constable has blundered."