• Strakh@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Wait… You have to have a court tell the federal government to not destroy/alter/plant evidence?

    How… how is that a thing? Should’nt that just happen normally?

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      3 days ago

      Law has never really accounted for bad faith actors from the prosecution side. They most likely won’t enforce it either. We’re very quickly finding out just how much laws won’t help us.

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      3 days ago

      Yes.

      But there are no consequences so they will ignore the court order and destroy any and all evidence they can, just as they did for Renee Good’s killer, the murderer Jonathan Ross.

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        It’s not quite that bad. Accessory after the fact for murder can result in the same sentence as the murder itself. So some of these ICE pigs, they could face life in prison if they have destroyed evidence poorly.

        Of course it depends on the details.