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Re:The Google Wallet, a lifetime log of your purchases by tzs on Monday September 19, 2011 @07:18AM (#3013090)
On the plus side, that timeline will help you if you want to claim murdering the hooker wasn't premeditated. Claim you killed her because she pulled a knife or threatened you or it was an accident during agreed-upon rough sex, and you panicked and decided to hide the body, and plea bargain to something that won't get you too much jail time.

Without a record of when you purchased the roll of carpet and the shovel, you'd have a much harder time selling that story.

And thanks...now I'm getting a little paranoid wondering if that time I decided I needed an area rug at 2 AM and so went to an all-night Walmart is ever going to come back and hurt me.

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Re:The Google Wallet, a lifetime log of your purchases by 0x12 on Monday September 19, 2011 @07:26AM (#3013104)
That's not how it works. If that was how it worked you could go and buy a roll of carpet and a shovel just to help your case. It doesn't prove that you pre-meditated the murder but it also doesn't prove that you didn't. Premeditation goes for everything, also for ways to get you off the hook.
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