Re:A man who was jailed on the fantasy evidence of a single ...
by mavdi on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @10:19AM
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They were suited up detectives. They arrested me on suspicion of robbery. One of them was about to handcuff me but I kindly asked that he shouldn't and he accepted. They then transported me to the police station while my neighbours watched. Standard police stuff then on...
Re:A man who was jailed on the fantasy evidence of a single ...
by talmand on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @01:14PM
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I don't know your local police procedures, but did they "book" you or just take you in for questioning? I apologize for the questioning but I'm interested in your treatment in all this. I find it really interesting that they were willing to not cuff you as they took you away.
Re:A man who was jailed on the fantasy evidence of a single ...
by mavdi on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @05:12PM
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They booked me and detained me in a cell for a few hours. They gave a cup of tea though.
Re:A man who was jailed on the fantasy evidence of a single ...
by talmand on Thursday June 25, 2015 @01:59PM
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I'm assuming you now have an arrest record because of this? If you do, then that's really screwed up.
That's two different things.
Seems the system worked in your case. You had a plausible reason for the existence of your fingerprint at the scene of the crime. I would imagine they also ran your background information without bothering to inform you and regular police officers don't care about motive. Detectives do when investigating a case but street cops showing up at your door (assuming that's what happened) probably don't. You apparently didn't even have to go to court to explain all this and be set free.
Curious, do you know if they caught who actually committed the robbery?