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minus-squareTropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·18 days agoIt’s about limiting government overreach.
minus-squarestoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·17 days agoI get the theory, but I disagree with the effectiveness. You are basically giving the police a tool to get rid of evidence they don’t want used. Just make some random procedural error, and poof, that evidence can’t be used. In our system, that tool does not exist, the evidence speaks for itself, if there are procedural errors, that is a separate matter.
It’s about limiting government overreach.
I get the theory, but I disagree with the effectiveness.
You are basically giving the police a tool to get rid of evidence they don’t want used.
Just make some random procedural error, and poof, that evidence can’t be used.
In our system, that tool does not exist, the evidence speaks for itself, if there are procedural errors, that is a separate matter.