For anyone who doubts that the prosecution is less than squeaky clean in the Enron case, please direct your browsers here. This case isn’t about Enron, or corporate crime at all. It’s about a 92 year old woman who was shot to death in a botched police raid.

Police officer Arthur Tesler, who was in the back yard during the raid, testified that an officer lied to a judge to get a warrant, then planted drugs in the woman’s basement to back up his story. His attorney alleges that police “routinely” planted drugs and lied to obtain search warrants.

Let me be clear: I am very much pro-law enforcement. I wrote a novel extolling the virtues and difficulties of being a good FBI agent. My creds in this regard are lily-white. But the FBI I so loved enough to write about is not the same breed of law enforcement that plants drugs, pressures and threatens witnesses, and silences others with their mysterious “un-indicted co-conspirators” lists.

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It is because I love law enforcement that I am so sickened by their behavior when they do something reprehensible like this. Whether its Jeff Skilling or a 92-year old woman awakened in the middle of the night by a no-knock raid, we need to give each defendant a fighting chance to defend him or herself.