1.   At trial, attorneys argued that the gun had been planted.

2.   After firing several bullets into Javier Francisco Ovando, Perez said he and Durden planted a gun on Ovando and then testified in court that he had attacked them.

3.   But Batista and three other witnesses insisted that the two officers planted the gun.

4.   But special prosecutor Alejandro Varelas determined that the police video had been edited, and that the guns were planted on the peasants.

5.   He said police officers planted guns on his son and tried him on charges of attempted murder, sedition and threatening national security.

6.   He told investigators that he and his partner shot an unarmed gang member, Javier Francisco Ovando, and planted a gun on him.

7.   In one instance, the police reportedly planted a gun on a gang member and rubbed the weapon against his hands to create fingerprints and justify an arrest.

8.   Perez, facing cocaine charges, admitted planting a gun on Ovando after Durden, his partner, wounded the Honduran immigrant.

9.   The case became public after a former police officer confessed to handcuffing and shooting an unarmed gang member, then planting a gun near his paralyzed body.

10.   The officer, Nino Durden, admitted that he and his partner had shot an unarmed, handcuffed gang member, then planted a gun on him.