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Really hard to judge without knowing the rest of the case. Lying to suspects isn't unethical. Intruding into a suspect's personal life by potentially destroying
by bayesianhorse 13y ago
Really hard to judge without knowing the rest of the case. Lying to suspects isn't unethical. Intruding into a suspect's personal life by potentially destroying relationships is a much tougher proposition.
Imagine the situation where the man is actually innocent, and his girlfriend(s) go berserk on him because of the ruse.
- amirmc 13y agoThat was my first thought. The prosecutor took it upon himself to manipulate two people. It should have been the police's job to probe the veracity of the alibis.
- DanBC 13y agoIt's pretty disturbing to read things like this: "Unless I could break this guy’s alibi a murderer might be walking on the street. There was such a small window of opportunity, I had to act fast." The guy has obviously decided that this man is a murderer, and needs to be convicted, and thus it's okay to take "extreme" measures to break an alibi. Sometimes this results in guilty people being convicted, but it also results in wrongful convictions.