There's probably a reason why he works for the Airport PD and not a real force.

Incidentally, does he really pronounce his name "DIE-lley" (as Phil referred to him) instead of the more usual "DIL-ley" ?

He pronounced his name "DILL-ee" when he testified. He retired from the regular police department as a respected detective. He has taught at the police academy.

Bruce

I suspect there is a time-stamp someplace on that card. But since it's likely possible to set the time on the camera to an arbitrary value at any time, that doesn't prove a whole lot.

Interesting. From gold shield to airport beat; no possibility of a 'chip' there then ;) .

I wonder if anybody currently in prison due primarily to the testimony of Dilley (or the other perjurers in this case) could successfully appeal and demand a new trial. There is precedent for that in the case where the police officer in question was convicted of perjury.

ABQ arrest: He's a John Doe. We don't have to give him anything back, actually.
 

No. The last thing that can be heard on my video is me asking Officer Dilley for a receipt after he confiscated my camera. I did not receive one from him or from anyone else at the Albuquerque Airport Police Department. The first document of the sort I received was at the county jail. Dilley dropped me at the downtown jail, where I stayed for about an hour before being tranferred to the county jail ("way out in the bushes").

As Bruce said, Officer Dilley's name is pronounced "DILL-ee" not "DIE-lee". At the time, I had only read it from his shirt, and I was a bit stressed.

Also, in one or more of the audio recordings I received via public records request, he is referred to as Bobby, not as Robert. In one or more of the written statements, someone else (De La Peña, if I remember correctly), referred to him as "B. Dilley". Someone uses a Bobby Dilley Facebook account to post on the Albuquerque Police Department wall, as well:

I suspect this MySpace page is from the same person.

I don't know.

That seems to be the case.

While Officers Dilley and Wiggins had me locked up in their office, Dilley hinted at not returning my belongings because of their decision to book me as John Doe instead of the name they used when Wiggins successfully checked with Southwest Airlines to find out if I had checked bags.

That's when the recording ends. The next one picks up when Dilley was unlocking me to take me to his car for the trip downtown.

The "take a seat, sir" part was kind of funny. I was standing near the cage door, watching what they were doing. Officer Dilley told me to sit down, so I immediately sat down -- on the floor next to the door, still watching. Then he told me to sit on the bench, which was at the back of the cage, so I moved there, where I was unable to see them.

No way. The testimony didn't come close to what would be needed to do that, let alone a conviction on perjury. All of it is well within the realm of wrong details. It just so happens that this case (unlike most) depends on details.

condition surrounding Officer Dilley's retirement; his past testimony; my camera
 

Bruce, could you cite your source(s), please?

I'm very curious about that. I'm also curious about all arrests by AAPD officers for the charges they threw at me. It would be interesting, I think, to get a picture of the accused disturber-of-the-peace. I really wish I had someone to put on such tasks. I can only do so much. How would "volunteer intern to some guy with lots of curiosity and not enough time" look on a resume?

The clock on my camera, as with that of most, is set by the user. I used a Canon Powershot A570IS with stock firmware.

Be that as it may, the charges, the audio tapes and the deletion of the video tells a story of some very vexatious cops. It seems they tried to give Phil a first-hand lesson in the law (as we heard on the tape) and they did: never trust cops.

There is a reason that the other 'witnesses' were not called to 'testify'-- they all got the details a little more out of the realm of wrong.

Phil - Don't know how to research what you need but did find this and thought I would contribute in case you could use it and didn't have it -- Dilley was retired and working as a cop out at the airport after retirement. Made about $25+ per hour. Doesn't look like Wiggins or the other guy are listed as retired. Dilley looks young to be retired but then I don't know much about how long it takes for retirement to be an option for a cop or under what reasons a cop can and does retire. In any case here's the link: http://cognosout.cabq.gov/cognos8/cg...ntent%2Ffolder[%

Moral of the story is to do a sight inventory and function check of all property before you leave. Matter of fact, there should have been an inventory of all property and a receipt listing same given to Phil at the time it was secured/confiscated by the police.

There is a reason why it is called "testilying".

He tried.....

It's painful to know that I didn't do so.

Given how incompetent the TSA has proven themselves to be time and time again? I really doubt they had the ability to properly erase the files from the camera's SD card. It would take either very little effort, or at most an hour or two to recover all those files UNLESS Phil has used the card since then.

I don't know if you want to stir the fecal matter any further, but if I had a tape like that I would be in the chief's office playing it, and demanding the SOPs concerning property "retained" by his police officers, recording, inventorying of same. And asking said chief if it was policy to allow his officers to steal from citizens.