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Yeah you really should be asking how the fuck you send someone to prison with zero fucking evidence of them committing a crime.
Surely bare minimum is that several people in the legal system need to be losing their jobs over it. If not facing criminal negligence charges of their own.
'found no evidence connecting him to the girl, the messages, or the images involved in the case.'
So the ONE piece of evidence was a username?? And he was convicted on that?
No. The one piece of evidence was an incorrect username.
But the AI said it was 100% and I even asked it to make no mistakes!
To those like me who are confused because Skyrim is single-player: it was a Kik username inspired by Skyrim
Thanks. Also isn’t kik notorious for illegal shit? Like csam?
I've never heard of it in any context other than illegal shit.
the underscore that costs an innocent man 18 months of his life
More like the shit police work and complete lack of evidence. How the hell could that make it through the courts all the way to sentencing?
Apparently the defence missed it too, which is pretty damning for whoever was (supposed to be) defending him, I’d think.
Even if the user name was correct, after a full search turned up no evidence of wrongdoing or behaviors consistent with the allegation, it should have been insufficient for sentencing.
legal systems in the British tradition have this tendency…
In the UK, it's because it's the defence's job to notice this kind of thing, but paying for a good lawyer is life-ruiningly expensive, and public defenders via legal aid are paid hourly, but have a cap on the number of hours that's never enough to deal with anything properly, so are either rushing everything and miss things, or are massively overworked and earning well below minimum wage when their unpaid work is included.
I don't know if the same problems extend to Canada, but it's fairly likely, as the adversarial approach just inherently means the defence has to do loads of things that would be someone else's job or not need doing at all under alternative systems, so you have to have a trained professional doing lots of work, and that's inherently expensive, but taxpayers don't like spending money on defending people who probably did crimes.
it is this rife lazy shit right here from cops, prosecutors and anyone who should know better and are paid to know better is why im always correcting people on the spelling of my name even if it is one letter off.
Outrageous this even happened to begin with.
The underscore was an SCP
