From The Washington Time:
Philadelphia homicide detectives serving on the force during the 1980s offered jailhouse informants sex and drugs in exchange for testimonies – true or false – in murder cases, according to an explosive new report.
The Philadelphia Inquirer on Tuesday published a detailed account documenting a police practice known as ‘sex for lies,’ which one legal expert called a ‘shock the conscience’ due process violation.
A dozen current and former inmates described in interviews and court records how detectives Ernest Gilbert and Larry Gerrard, who have since died, would allegedly bring them to the Police Administration Building, nicknamed the Roundhouse, and allow them to have sex with women in interview rooms in exchange for their cooperation in homicide cases that the pair were eager to close. Continue reading >>>
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