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Or perhaps the standards of evidence established for a pre-industrial society when eye-witness testimony was the best that could reasonably be achieved is not n
by jjk166 4mo ago
Or perhaps the standards of evidence established for a pre-industrial society when eye-witness testimony was the best that could reasonably be achieved is not necessarily the optimal system for a digital society where everyone carries a high definition video camera in their pocket at all times.
- DiscourseFan 4mo agoYes a high definition video camera that is slowly becoming indistinguishable (and has always been subject to tampering regardless) from an artificially generated version. We never have anything beyond judgement.
- expedition32 4mo agoThis is why crimes used to have prosecution time limits. Nobody expected eye witness accounts to surface after 40 years. But DNA is eternal.
- DiscourseFan 4mo agoDNA is not eternal, but neither is anyone's memory trustworthy for that long.
- cucumber3732842 4mo agoProsecution time limits and those pesky rights people have is why so much stuff that would've been simple misdemeanors 70+yr ago is now "administrative" and "civil" law.
- broken-kebab 4mo agoBut in what way do you believe these standards are inadequate? Video from phones is used in courts when available and admissible.