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Article: Defense Calls Tulia Perjury Case 'Smear'
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- January 14, 2005
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BETSY BLANEY, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
01-14-2005
Dateline: LUBBOCK, Texas
A perjury case against the lone agent in a discredited series of drug busts is nothing but a smear campaign, a defense attorney told jurors Friday. But a prosecutor branded the defendant a "100 percent" liar.
After they heard closing arguments, jurors began deliberating the perjury case against former undercover agent Tom Coleman.
"It's a smear campaign to bring everything the government thinks Tom Coleman did in a negative way, because they want you to hate Tom Coleman so much that all you can do is find him guilty," attorney Kirk Lectenberger said in closing arguments.
Coleman arrested 46 people, most of them ...