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Re:Former University of Iowa Hospital employee used fake ide... by mlyle on Thursday April 04, 2024 @11:45PM (#39938496)
Well, he also lied to police, substantiated with lie with false documents, and this resulted in someone ending up forcibly medicated and imprisoned for an extended time.

He knew the guy was going to trial and his comfortable life was more valuable to him than honesty or this other man's existence.

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Re:Former University of Iowa Hospital employee used fake ide... by AnarchismIsCool on Friday April 05, 2024 @12:01AM (#39938567)
There should never be anything wrong with lying to the police... They're allowed to lie to you.

In the article's situation it was causing ongoing harm to another person so this is still pretty bad though

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Re:Former University of Iowa Hospital employee used fake ide... by Ekaros on Friday April 05, 2024 @02:17AM (#39939209)
I always found it so weird that in some legal systems defendant can't lie or interrogation is not very strict process where only final statement is signed...
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Re:Former University of Iowa Hospital employee used fake ide... by thaumasiotes on Friday April 05, 2024 @08:32AM (#39941598)
I'm with you on lying to the police.

But note that, according to the article, lying to the police was viewed as a minor crime. The major one was giving his bank a false name. The bank isn't even, notionally, an arm of the state.

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Re:Former University of Iowa Hospital employee used fake ide... by hooverd on Friday April 05, 2024 @12:38AM (#39938731)
Different guy...
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Re:Former University of Iowa Hospital employee used fake ide... by mlyle on Friday April 05, 2024 @12:55AM (#39938793)
Ah, it was unclear to me whether we'd reverted to talk about the article, but the duplication of 19 years answers that.

In any case, I guess-- it's complicated. We have this guy who was seemingly a different person for nearly 35 years, but then reverted to do something terrible (and similar to things he had done in the past) when it all threatened to come crashing down. And the other guy who was someone different for 19 years.

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