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Originally Posted by Yakk
echo5delta, did you not read the two people in this thread who had false DUIs arrests occur to themselves or a friend of theirs?
All it takes for a cop to arrest someone is that cop wanting that person arrested. There is no review until it goes to court. There might be an assload of evidence, and they might be guilty -- or the cop might be on a power trip, arresting people for the hell of it, or hell you might be a fire-breather. (there is a case!)
What harm would there be in delaying the publication until conviction?
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So would that go for ALL crimes? People are suspected of robbing banks, embezzling millions of dollars, murder, fraud, theft, and many others. You can pick up an paper and see that people are "suspected" of crimes all the time.
If it's delaying publication until conviction, then it's delaying it for ALL that are accused of crimes.
Yet, by that time could it be too late? I may have done business with someone who was suspected of theft. Should I worry about them stealing something in my business?
I could have hired someone suspected of embezzling money and they were eventually convicted. Should I have to worry that maybe they somehow didn't figure out how to embezzle money from my business?
The key here is that these individuals are accused, NOT convicted. People appear in the paper as accused inviduals all the time. There doesn't seem to be any "up in arms" about them. Why just the DUI accused?
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