Cops.......what can you say
Ex-Cop Who Killed Denies Setting Up 'Hit' On Whistleblower
NEW ORLEANS -- A former New Orleans police officer told a jury Monday that he did not order the killing of a woman who filed a brutality complaint against him, but was instead setting her up in a drug deal.
Representing himself, Len Davis is undergoing a second sentencing hearing to decide whether he will die for the 1994 slaying of Kim Groves, a killing that federal prosecutors said he ordered another man to perform.
Davis' 1996 conviction for federal civil rights violations still stands, but various appeals court rulings tossed out his original death sentence and that of convicted hit man Paul Hardy. Hardy will face a second sentencing hearing in October.
At the time of Groves' killing, Davis was the target of an FBI sting operation that included a tap on his cell phone. Federal agents had set up a fake cocaine warehouse and Davis was looking for other corrupt officers to guard the building.
Eleven New Orleans police officers were eventually convicted in the drug sting, including Davis, who got an additional sentence of life in prison.