Pubdate: Tue, 30 Apr 2013
Source: New York Post (NY)
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Author: Douglas Montero

'LYING' NARC: BLAME BEER

A veteran NYPD narcotics detective accused of perjury is claiming 
that her nightly habit of downing more than a dozen beers until she 
"passes out" impaired her memory when she testified about a marijuana bust.

The startling claim yesterday by Detective Debra Eager's lawyer Peter 
Brill stunned Bronx jurors.

"She did not intend to lie - to commit perjury," Brill said. "She had 
no blinking idea" what she told the grand jury because "she woke up 
in a haze and fog after years of drinking."

Prosecutors say Eager lied to cover up an illegal November 2007 
search that netted 33 pounds of marijuana.
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