Teacher's fatal DUI case dismissed after LMPD officer's indictment

Have you actually taken part in a narcotics related trial? Few, if any attorneys would or do allow their client to get on the stand to testify in a narcotics trial. They get to just sit there while the defense attorney takes shot after shot at the officer. It opens the door to questions about the bad act commited by the defendant from the prosecution. Instead, they attack the integrity of the investigating officer/detective, try to say the officers lack experience or training, their inveistigative skills are called into question and on numerous occasions are called racist or accused of profiling for even making the traffic stop/or executing the search warrant that led to the arrest. Especially when nothing else seems to be working for the defense. The only time I have seen a defendant take the stand in a narcotics trial is in the "truth and sentencing" phase, after they have been found guilty. Then the defendant gets on the stand and tells of his depraved childhood, not having a mother or a father, being raised by his grannie, or how he has a learning diability, anything to try to mitigate the fact that he just got found guilty of the narcotics related offense. Sometimes quit comical, especially when Mascagni or one of the other extremely theatrical attorneys start crying and saying his client is a good man/woman and is close to getting his vetrinarian license. Sometimes a waste of 3 to 5 days in court to be honest, especially since Jefferson County has some of the weakest or maybe THE weakest drug laws in the state.