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A comment on Indiana man charged with theft for removing police tracking device from car. Parent comment

Re:Indiana man charged with theft for removing police tracki... by dkersten on Friday November 22, 2019 @12:36PM (#21607833)
We have no way of knowing that the police didn't plant the evidence to save face and justify the warrant. Shit like that's happened before. There are plenty of cases of people going to jail and being much, much later exonerated and there are cases of being framed by police. We don't know how many more people are rotting in jail who are completely innocent.

I mean, sure, it might not be likely, but the point is, these police were willing to do unscrupulous things to catch the guy, so how do we know?

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Re:Indiana man charged with theft for removing police tracki... by manigandham on Friday November 22, 2019 @12:41PM (#21607902)
That's beside the point. The parent comment was saying that being rightfully guilty is worse than being innocent and assumed guilty because they disagree with the severity of the crime.

To me, being innocent yet treated as guilty is far worse, and in fact the US justice system holds that as a core principle.

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