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Originally Posted by Derek S
Ok so you are quite happy for a huge increase in the amount of CCTV cameras and filming taking place at every road junction in the land.
Oh and you can't just pick up forensics out of thin air, there isn't always any lasting evidence.
Fists and feet can be used to assault people, are you going to fingerprint them? 
How. In the original link two cops saw a driver on a phone. He said he wasn't. Whats the difference to two cops finding someone in a building but when he gets to court he says he wasn't there.
There wasn't insufficient evidence though. Two witnesses both swore, under oath, they saw the accused driving whilst using a phone. Plenty of people are convicted every day in courts on the evidence of two people with no other corroboration. This shouldn't have been any different.
Out of virtually every other road traffic case in the country the evidence is what the Police saw. Not every car is fitted with cameras to record what happens. |
Derek,this isn't as clear cut as you make it seem,or may perceive it to be.I think there were multiple things that swayed the judge.
1) The hands-free kit
2) He said he was scratching his head.Now,that may be an excuse,but can the judge really accuse him of lying?
If you look at ALL the evidence in the case,I think the judge chose correctly.
And sorry to say this,but no,a police officers testimony is NOT necessarily to be believed or taken at face value.I know you're a police officer,and i mean no disrespect.But just cause someone is a cop,doesn't mean they're telling the truth.
And....you know just as well as I do,that there is no place on earth where more lies are being told than in a court of law.Under oath or not.Be realistic.
I also know that you guys don't like to testify against each other,or not back up your colleagues version of events.Don't say it's not so,cause it is.
All I'm saying is,that 'Blinks' story could be true,and the cops MAY have not seen the whole picture,that's all.
In dubio pro reo: "When in doubt, in favor of the accused."
p.s: what the guy being a gangster has to do with all this....I don't know,but that's the press
