Do you think that was intentional? Like was the prosecution paid off?
Comment on Alec Baldwin's manslaughter trial over Rust shooting has been dismissed
Nobody@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The bullets were turned over by retired Arizona police officer Troy Teske, who is said to be a close friend of Thell Reed, the father of Rust armourer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed. Crime scene technician Marissa Poppell accepted the bullets, but they were not inventoried with the Rust case. Some of the rounds Teske handed over were Starline brass casings with nickel primers which matched the ones that killed Hutchins
Withholding that kind of evidence is unconscionable. It tainted the entire investigation. They basically forced the judge to dismiss the case.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Nobody@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It looks like the armorer was a local and her dad’s cop buddies hid evidence to try to help her. At least one prosecutor signed off on it, because she testified that she didn’t turn over the evidence because she thought it was irrelevant.
There is no universe where live ammunition recovered from the scene is irrelevant.
dtaylor84@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Uh, they weren’t recovered from the scene.
Nobody@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The official law enforcement reports were falsified. We don’t know where the bullets they lied about came from. If the police deliberately lied on an official report once, why would you trust the rest of the “official” report?
Courts give law enforcement a lot of blind trust. If you can prove that this trust has been violated, everything they’ve done under that umbrella of trust comes into question.
If it’s this egregious and the prosecutor (s) were okay with it, we don’t even get to have a trial. Why would a fake investigation result in a trial?
The tragedy for the victims is that they’ll never truly know what happened, because the people entrusted with handling the investigation cared more about protecting their own and prosecuting a “Hollywood liberal” than finding out what really happened.
koberulz@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
You think prosecutors need to be paid off to hide evidence and generally ignore the rights of defendants?
Deebster@programming.dev 4 months ago
A bunch of people got away with the Panama Papers stuff because of chain of custody shenanigans.