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Comment on If you were (falsely) accused of murder, but you have records of your phone at home with youtube videos being played, can you submit those records as a sort of Alibi to exonerate you?

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KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

It’s like saying you couldn’t have committed a crime because your TV was on at the time; it seems too flimsy to even be usable if you didn’t have some other form of evidence supporting that it was actually you using it to go along with it. I’m not a lawyer, so it’s possible I’m totally wrong, but surely no competent lawyer would expect that to work and no judge would take that as evidence on its own merits.

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theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

it seems too flimsy

Okay, then the cops will have no problem proving you were elsewhere at the time, if its a lie. Until they’ve proved it and convinced a jury of that, you’re 100% innocent.

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- KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The question wasn’t, “Could this be used as evidence?”, it was “Would this exonerate you?”
  
  Maybe we’re answering two different questions, but I don’t see this being enough to exonerate anyone without some supporting evidence to go with it.
  
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