https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
It’s not a law but a practice that cops do in order to use dubiously acquired evidence to build a case against someone.
Does Dutch/EU law have that?
jeansburger@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
Yes but that doesn't answer the question of whether it's an accepted practice in the EU. I'm also not so sure it isn't somehow codified into law, in the US there's precedents supporting it but IDK about other countries.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
The point is that it skirts the law. You can’t really make it illegal because it is a way of subverting legality. If they legally obtain the evidence then it’s legally obtained. If they happened to get to that point through extra-legal means that doesn’t really matter, as long as the end result is legal. Maybe you could argue in court that they only got there because of extra-legal actions, but they can argue the opposite. If this helps them look in the right spot for illegal actions, who’s to say that them looking there couldn’t have happened purely by chance?
rollin@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
It basically means dodging legal restrictions on investigation by using illegal (or at least inadmissible) means to obtain evidence, and once the police have it, they look for legal ways to get that same information.
So everywhere “has it”, the question is whether they use it. I don’t know if there’s reason to believe that EU police forces use such methods more or less than their US counterparts.
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
I know what it is, but that doesn't mean it's an accepted practice in the EU. I don;t really know much about how their law works, which is why I asked about it.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
It’s not an acceptable practice anywhere, but it happens all the time