27772nd poster gets a cookie (cookie thread (Part 7)) (Part 10)

[ImaginaryNeon]

Can we just dissolve new york instead?
That seems much simpler.

[bystander]

fortress of lies wins

[bystander]

all other social deduction sites have dueled each other to death this morning

[Ash]

Really hoping Netflix puts Wake Up Dead Man in a Regal.
As cool as watching it in 35mm would be, it’s also $25.

[Jane]

At least you get it in a theater.

[Ash]

Ok, they caught the guy.
Precinct called and asked if I would be able to identify him from a lineup.

[soweli]

(setting up bait for molly to get distracted by instead of getting the cookie)

[Marshal]

holy shit i didnt know they actually did that lol

[Ash]

Well, it was technically not a lineup. More “I’m gonna text you a photo of the guy, and you tell me if it’s the same person.”

[Silviu200530]

I’m sorry Ash I don’t know where I was in this day I didn’t see it. I’m really sorry you had to go through that wtf

[Ash]

All’s well that ends well.

[notblackorwhite]

It’s genuinely crazy how many convictions are predicated on this sort of thing. People have proven to not actually reliable at identifying people they’ve seen like once ever for not that long. (And also this is a thing that disproportionately harms minorities in the US.) Not saying that you, Ash, are wrong in this instance for what it’s worth. I just worked in a public defender’s office, and tend to think about legal things from the side of the defendant. The bar should be higher for convictions than specious or circumstantial evidence at best and witness identification when there isn’t reasonable grounds for said witness to actually be able to reliably identify the perpetrator.

[Silviu200530]

I haven’t kept it up with the news yet, but curiosity here, did all the people arrested during district of colombia protests were acquitted? Especially that sandwhich guy?

[Marshal]

sandwich guy was found not guilty

[ImaginaryNeon]

who what huh

[Silviu200530]

Don’t worry about it, neonie

[Arete]

wow that sounds like a terrible way to do a line-up! wildly worse than standard* procedure!

* contrary to how fiction sometimes depicts it, you’re not supposed to have one line-up of all the guys you think might be guilty, you’re supposed to have a line-up of 1 suspect and a bunch of non-suspects, and to be allowed to say ‘it is not any of those people.’ obviously this is still a very imperfect system but it beats the thing they do in movies (possibly they also do it in real life occasionally but only if they’re incompetent)

[Arete]

as opposed to ‘hey is it this guy specifically’ which. Joycat

[Aleph (Ishmael)]

can confirm line ups are not that accurate

source: was picked in one for a crime i didn’t commit

[benguinedparbecue]

if the officer tells you to start singing a catchy pop song do not comply!