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Each link in the chain of Arrest -> Charge -> Conviction, requires a different level of confidence that a crime has been committed by the accused. Walking out
by frobozz 12y ago
Each link in the chain of Arrest -> Charge -> Conviction, requires a different level of confidence that a crime has been committed by the accused.
Walking out of a shop with goods that are on sale in that shop, with the shopkeeper shouting that you haven't paid, looks sufficiently like a crime for an arrest, just not for a charge or conviction.
- Someone1234 12y agoUntil the police officer talks to (A) the shop owner, (B) the suspect, or (C) their named colleague who would know factually that no crime was committed. For what you say to make sense, the arrest has to be made in complete isolation without talking to any single party involved. Seems like a stretch.