Coleman V. Coleman Case Study

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The major issues pertaining to the case was, that Coleman had basically had a lot of wrongdoing before, during, and after his investigations. He no evidence to prove on all those cases that he supposedly had investigated and made arrests and convictions on. On top of that after they had hired Coleman they found indictments on him for theft. Then to find him guilty of one count of aggravated perjury. Also that Stewart was involved in a perjury trial, and courts felt that Stewart knew everything that Coleman was already involved in; which he claimed he didn't. In a way I think the case was handled in the right way, but I think he should of got some jail time to sit, and think about what he had done. It is never ok to just sit there, and commit perjury or any other crime Coleman had committed. …show more content…
So that is a good thing, which also messed up his career as a result of having his license revoked. As well as making it where he will never be able to be a peace officer or county jailer ever again. Coleman definitely shouldn't had been in a law enforcement position, especially with the background he had. That was doing nothing but setting the county up for failure, and they should had made sure they ran a good background check on him as they should had

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