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Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai... by nostrademons on Monday July 27, 2026 @03:04AM (#49066026)
I just served on a jury and in our case, the cop was a lying scumbag, the prosecutor's expert witnesses were people milking the taxpayers to provide the evaluations that the state wanted to hear for thousands of dollars per hour, the defense's expert witnesses copy-and-pasted an evaluation from another client but didn't bother to proofread before the prosecutor brought up that they had the wrong name in the text, and the defendant raped and molested multiple kids below the age of 8, some still in diapers.

I feel like many court cases are textbook instances of Everyone Sucks Here. I needed therapy after the case because it had so shaken my faith in both the justice system and humanity.

Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai... by Hikikomori on Monday July 27, 2026 @05:19AM (#49067012)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Grigson

Forensic sciences and experts hired by prosecutors is a big problem.

Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai... by mlrtime on Monday July 27, 2026 @06:39AM (#49067601)
"I feel like many court cases are textbook instances of Everyone Sucks Here. I needed therapy after the case because it had so shaken my faith in both the justice system and humanity."

I really don't think most of the people posting here understand what the professionals working in criminal justice/law see on the average day. They see the worst of the worst on one side, and then the public who they are trying to get a paycheck to defend on the other attacking them.

This in no way excuses bad behavior, but we're all human and these people aren't robots.