A judge who was appointed by Donald Trump himself has slapped the administration with an order against manipulating evidence related to the shooting and killing of an ICU nurse in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Josh Gerstein, senior legal affairs reporter at Politico, broke the news early Sunday morning Eas...
Wait… You have to have a court tell the federal government to not destroy/alter/plant evidence?
How… how is that a thing? Should’nt that just happen normally?
Yes.
But there are no consequences so they will ignore the court order and destroy any and all evidence they can, just as they did for Renee Good’s killer, the murderer Jonathan Ross.
It’s not quite that bad. Accessory after the fact for murder can result in the same sentence as the murder itself. So some of these ICE pigs, they could face life in prison if they have destroyed evidence poorly.
Of course it depends on the details.
Law has never really accounted for bag faith actors from the prosecution side. They most likely won’t enforce it either. We’re very quickly finding out just how much laws won’t help us.