Re:‘Testilying’ by Police: A Stubborn Problem
by wl on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @05:19PM
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It's not perjury unless it's willful. I have no doubt that some of these inconsistencies (most?) are deliberate, but human memory is often pretty terrible. Good luck proving that the officer was deliberately not telling the truth.
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Re:‘Testilying’ by Police: A Stubborn Problem
by cstoner on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @06:53PM
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Well, usually this comes from written statements right after the event right? It's not like there's a several week gap between the event and the report.... right?
Re:‘Testilying’ by Police: A Stubborn Problem
by dclowd9901 on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @06:11PM
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How about making it a crime to misremember? Sure would make you think twice before you testified something as fact. Human memory is _very_ fallible. Time we started treating it that way.
Re:‘Testilying’ by Police: A Stubborn Problem
by milesokeefe on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @06:44PM
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Under that law, very few sane people would testify at all.
Re:‘Testilying’ by Police: A Stubborn Problem
by dclowd9901 on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @10:35PM
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Great. Most testimonies are probably fallacious anyway.
Re:‘Testilying’ by Police: A Stubborn Problem
by michaelmrose on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @02:23AM
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Unless you suffer from a mental disease your memory isn't that bad. Small inconsistencies aren't really the issue.