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What if it isn't going to be used against but could be exculpatory?

• sp332 10y ago
  Of course, it's illegal for them to withhold any exculpatory evidence.
  • dragonwriter 10y ago
    If its not public, you have minimal chance of discovering it if it isn't provided, so while it is illegal for them to withhold it, you'll never know it existed and was withheld unless someone who does know of it -- almost certainly the police themselves, or the person shown in it (quite possibly, the real criminal, who would be revealing their own identity by coming forward) -- actively reveals it. So, illegal or not, it makes it much easier for them to get away with concealing exculpatory evidence.