Were there any legal justifications for the actions?

I was the foreman on a jury for a DUI case. We were all pretty convinced that the guy was drunk, probably over the limit. Thing is the cops stretched and twisted the truth on the stand. The video of the perp back in the station house did not show what they claimed happened. Since they basically lied and tried to steer us to believe what they wanted us to believe instead of saying that the tape was shot over an hour after the arrest and some of the intoxication wore off, we had to acquit the guy.

Does that make me one of those bleeding hearts too? Sometimes the law does not work the way we want it too. Sometimes guilty go free so that innocent people do not go to prison. No one said the system is perfect.

By the way, are there any examples of case where a conservative hard nose judge was biased against someone and let a perp off with a light sentence? May be one that might have been mentioned on this forum in the last day or two? Are there any of those?

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