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Re:Chelsea Manning Can Remain in Jail for Another Year, Judg... by EpicEng on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @01:36PM (#20636938)
And what if you can't obtain that evidence because the person in possession won't hand it over? What if your only 'witness' is a corporate entity? What if your witness just doesn't like cops? Probably a hundred more scenarios I can't come up with at the moment.

In your world guilty parties walk because the state has no power to make anyone do anything. Everything is based upon the prosecutor being Sherlock Holmes and always finding exactly what they need. The real world doesn't work that way.

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Re:Chelsea Manning Can Remain in Jail for Another Year, Judg... by magduf on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @08:02PM (#20640523)
I have a really hard time believing that the vast majority of convictions depend on uncooperative witness testimony.
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Re:Chelsea Manning Can Remain in Jail for Another Year, Judg... by EpicEng on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @08:50PM (#20640815)
Who ever said "vast majority"?
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Re:Chelsea Manning Can Remain in Jail for Another Year, Judg... by jessaustin on Thursday August 08, 2019 @05:06PM (#20648766)
"Everything is based upon the prosecutor being Sherlock Holmes and always finding exactly what they need."

Are the italicized qualifiers intended to mean something other than that?

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