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Old 05-06-2019, 02:25 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by Sliver View Post
Do you have any examples of that ever happening? I always thought police would love it when one of these guys blabs to the media and slips up.

There are lots but the general concept is "trial by media". You don't want the media to effect how the public and by proxy a jury or defense lawyer might view a defendant. In this example most people who saw those initial interviews will believe he's a lying, guilty, scum bag. That's no good for his chance for an impartial trial and our desire for justice to be served. I'm not a lawyer by any stretch and so I might be wrong. Our in house legal counsel could speak to it much better than me. But when I saw those videos of him I was like man, that's not good.
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