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Originally Posted by butterfly
Okay, you said that what the prosecution read was some esoteric thing that lies between an assertion and a fact.
The notes themselves are not fabricated; I'm sure they're exactly what the police officer wrote down. The substance of the notes is biased because of what they want the outcome of the case to be. For example, they may write "subject was argumentative and belligerent", but they will not write "subject was calm and polite". They are not an impartial record of what happened.
No need to be upset. You tend to see things from a prosecutorial standpoint and I tend to see them from the eyes of the defense. We're different.
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No, I see things from a defence perspective, because that’s the only criminal law I ever did. But they wrote down “victim’s neck was red”, that’s an observation of fact. And in fact their notes in this case had evidence going both ways.
It’s nothing esoteric. It’s just evidence - albeit much of it hearsay.