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Melissa Sims said her nightmare began after she called police during an argument with her boyfriend, when she said he allegedly ransacked her home.

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[–] RegularJoe@lemmy.world 54 points 8 months ago (1 children)

After eight months of legal wrangling by her attorney, prosecutors dropped the bond violation charge against her. And, last month, she went to trial on the battery charge and was acquitted.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 37 points 8 months ago (4 children)

After eight months of legal wrangling by her attorney, prosecutors dropped the bond violation charge against her.

How was this not handled within 24 hours by checking the fucking phone records??

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 8 months ago

You want authorities to investigate? Phaw!

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Because that takes more time and actual work. By forcing her to trial, prosecutors and police get to up their numbers.

[–] hanrahan@piefed.social 2 points 8 months ago

Not rich enough

[–] FreedomAdvocate 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Most messaging services that people use these days aren’t showing up in “phone records”.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

she said her boyfriend created an AI-generated text that called him names and made disparaging comments.

Texts would show up on phone records.

[–] FreedomAdvocate -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

“Text” is almost always used no matter what actual messaging service was used.

Also how would AI have sent a SMS to his phone from her? It was likely an ai generated screenshot of messages.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Also how would AI have sent a SMS to his phone from her?

It's almost like that's my point.

[–] FreedomAdvocate -1 points 8 months ago

But “phone records”, whatever that means, won’t show telegram/imessage/signal/fb messenger/etc messages.