You have an odd outlook on this. The DAs job is to prosecute people who commit crimes. It isn’t to “win” by embarrassing someone. They don’t get egg on their face if they lose. This isn’t a bunch of teenagers on social media obsessed with what people may say about them.
I don’t understand how they are “digging in their heels” when they offered a plea bargain and it was rejected. What else should they do? Say “oh you don’t want the plea bargain for the crime you committed, no problem, never mind we will drop it”.
By this argument they should just throw out
any crime that isn’t severe.
IMO, the fact that the DA offered a plea bargain tells me that the video evidence isn't 100% guaranteed to be admissible. Again, I am no lawyer...I just watch a lot of TV, LOL.
DA's can drop cases that they deem to not be worthy of prosecution due to lack of evidence or reliability of witnesses.
No it isn’t. There are witnesses. Do you think the only crimes that get convictions are ones with video of them being committed?
A witness is only worth their credibility with 12 people on the jury.
Oh come on. You think you read something about misconduct somewhere so now every cop in that county will not be allowed to testify?
It worked for O.J. The Marion county Sheriff's department had a lot of weird cases...including jailing a woman for 90 days over laundry detergent that a cop insisted was meth.....
Wow. A take being inadmissible (if that happened) does not mean it was obtained illegally. They had a warrant.
Inadmissible means it "doesn't exist"...legal or not. And they had a warrant...but they execute the warrant within its parameters? There is discussion of whether they were even allowed to RECORD.
Oh great. Now you are arguing that the credibility of someone you never met and no nothing about would easily be destroyed because their boss said “hit the record button we have a warrant” and you think you rad something somewhere.
Let me be clear here, because people in this thread consistently make up things meaning something that wasn’t said.
Police have and do break the rules. Some are not credible. Some lie. You have absolutely nothing to conclude that THESE cops did any of that.
I have nothing man! I only have what I read and my own opinion. However, here's a link:
Deputies posed as 'repair persons' to plant cameras at spas
KEY QUOTES:
However, one local law firm representing more than a dozen accused "johns", believes the video recordings were obtained illegally. Attorneys with Kibbey-Wagner recently filed a motion to keep the videos out of evidence in at least four cases out of Martin County.
“The [search warrant application] that the police filed with the judge was to monitor and record what was happening the spa,” said Jordan Wagner, a partner at the firm. “But in the judge's order, he only put the word monitor, not monitor and record.”
We checked the paperwork. The search warrant applications clearly ask for monitoring and recording permissions in the title of the document. However, the judge’s order granting those permissions only uses the word "monitor," not "monitor and record."
“We feel if you ask for A, B, and C, and you only get A and B, logic would tell you that you weren’t allowed to get C,” Wagner told WPTV’s Meghan McRoberts. “In this case, they asked for monitoring and recording and the judge’s order only says monitoring.
AND:
“I think people should be concerned about their privacy,” Martin County Sheriff William Snyder told Contact 5, during a recent one-on-one interview. “We would only do a video surveillance like this under the most extraordinary circumstances.”
William Snyder is the same dude who said, "Oh, it wasn't human traficking....my bad!" just last week....
Kraft ruined his own reputation.
A district attorney isn’t trying to win by embarrassing people they are trying to prosecute law breakers and get justice.
Yep, that was my point. The DA already has a win. The DA is an elected official....and presumably needs to be tough on crime which means they need to have a high conviction rate. This DA has his/her work cut out for them.....this case is a loser case...it is why they gave Kraft an easy out....if Kraft admitted guilt...sent some money to an anti-human trafficking organization....issued a public apology...got suspended 4-5 games by Goodell...we would no longer be talking about this. Kraft and his legal team obviously think they can win this case and if I were the DA, I would fight for the admissibility of the video....and punt the case if the video isn't a part of it.
BTW, a personal question....where do you find the energy to type up walls of text/quoting everybody here?
