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> The whole concept of ‘video evidence’ is going up in smoke. are you talking legally? not sure why that would be the case. Courts accept documents which can
by apwell23 1y ago
> The whole concept of ‘video evidence’ is going up in smoke.
are you talking legally?
not sure why that would be the case. Courts accept documents which can be forged. Doing that would be a crime.
- jonplackett 1y agoYeah and people forge things all the time. Which I’d imagine is quite problematic
- alwa 1y agoIt takes a certain degree of chutzpah to introduce those forged documents in court, though… you’re submitting them to adversarial scrutiny, it’s part of the court’s job to decide whether they’re reliable or not, and detection leads to criminal sanctions
- jonplackett 1y agoI mean the other way around - you have to prove someone is guilty beyond reasonable doubt. What if there is some genuine footage, but there’s enough doubt that it could not be genuine
- apwell23 1y agothey do? how do you know this?
- qingcharles 1y agoWhen you submit a document to the court you must "lay a foundation" for it. That is, someone with personal knowledge of the document must testify under penalty of perjury about the contents being accurate and unmodified, etc.