New Hamshire Detective Testifies Wearing Ski Mask
Posted By Administrator on November 24, 2009
I couldn’t resist passing on this short excerpt from a post published today on A Public Defender Blog:
New Hampshire’s Supreme Court recently ruled that it’s okay for a police officer to testify at a criminal trial while wearing a ski-mask to protect his identity because he was working in an undercover unit at the time of the trial.Yes, you read that right. In State of New Hampshire v. Jose Hernandez, a police officer who had conducted an interview with the complaining witness was permitted to sit there like a cat burglar, with a ski mask on his face. The State’s reasoning – bought by the trial court – was that the officer’s identity needed to be protected. Never mind the fact that the jury viewed the interview with the complainant in which his face was uncovered and that everyone knew his name.
[Source: A Public Defender blog]
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