• pHr34kY@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    The indictment alleges that Tunick knowingly deleted the phone’s digital contents

    My hot take: the officer wiped the phone. With their own hands. They’re just stupid.

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      7 hours ago

      If they succeed I guess in the future an officer could delete your phone to save face then blame it on you.

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        6 hours ago

        Those of us who have asked to avoid the cancer box and been subjected to a subjectively punitive pat-down and fashion show experience are already anticipating just that. Yay!

        (And for added fun, call it a cancer box. Wow, when you get that one TSA who only has bad days will you get a great speech as well)

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        Parallel construction is a way to present evidence illegally obtained by coming up with a plausible-seeming other way it was found.

        So, rather than saying “we illegally stopped and searched the defendant” they’ll get an “informant” (sometimes paid, sometimes coerced) to swear that they tipped them off beforehand.

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            6 hours ago

            It’s a form of lying, but with a specific meaning.

            Like how the 9th (or 8th, depending on how you’re counting) Commandment says to not bear false witness. That doesn’t mean that people following an Abrahamic faith cannot lie… just that they can’t lie in that one specific way.