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Re:Woman catches state police attaching tracker to her car, ... by troutmskreplica on Monday May 31, 2021 @11:23PM (#27350435)
This is true in the US as well, at least where I live. Judges specifically inform the jury that they cannot treat a police officer’s testimony with any more weight or as any more correct than any other witness.

Whether juries actually pay attention to this or not I cannot say.

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Re:Woman catches state police attaching tracker to her car, ... by LordDragonfang on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @03:22AM (#27351548)
I just had jury duty in one of the most liberal states in the union.

I had the prosecuting lawyer explicitly ask us during jury selection if we would "take into account that police officers have training which [we] wouldn't have access to as a civilian." And repeated it during the trial. All without a peep from the judge. So YMMV on that.

On an unrelated note, the prosecuting lawyer then proceeded to systematically eliminate exclusively women and minorities from the jury, and specifically removed every woman of color. Which I'm sure was a total coincidence.

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