if what slurpy says is true, it should be. doesn’t mean it will, the supreme court has ruled the police get a certain amount of whoopsies when it comes to your constitutional rights and you get zero
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LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 4 hours agoYou’re saying the backpack was ruled inadmissible? If so that is certainly a big deal, maybe bigger than possible jury nullification.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 hours ago
Yeah that’s my concern. The courts and the police are besties and they usually have each other’s backs unless something happens that’s so blatantly criminal that they can’t find a way to excuse it. Imperfect custody of evidence doesn’t sound that way to me, but I’m no expert.
The good news for Luigi is his case has a lot of public scrutiny, which can force the courts to behave a bit better in some cases.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
The thing is, I haven’t heard that the backpack was thrown out of the evidence, which is what confuses me. But I’m only following the case via Lemmy and Reddit.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 hours ago
The courts usually give an obscene amount of deference to the police. In a high profile case like this it’s possible they’ll be slightly more by the book… but usually they wrote the book to allow police to “reasonably” violate our constitutional rights, so that only goes so far.