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submitted 4 weeks ago by zabadoh@ani.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ca
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A citizen not under arrest? How is that destroying evidence?

[-] zabadoh@ani.social 38 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

They destroyed their own private information that might prove them guilty of a crime during an unreasonable search and seizure, therefore they're guilty of a different crime.

No entrapment at all.

Oh, and it wasn't even the person, it was law enforcement that erased the person's phone through arguably careless handling.

/s in case it isn't obvious.

Hopefully it goes in front a judge who sees this as the harassment it clearly is. Thanks for posting

[-] XLE@piefed.social 17 points 4 weeks ago

You're not alone with this assessment. And what's more interesting...

“Many times the government wants to highlight what it was trying to investigate because that ups the stakes on what the defendant was doing,” Professor Richman said. “This is a case where I think they’re trying to avoid exactly that by focusing only on the destruction, and not what the investigation was about.”

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