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Comment by amrit3128

17 hours ago

Who decided that it's evidence?

Evidence is simply a word to describe the artifacts that one wishes to use to support their case. There’s not some gate-kept process to “become evidence”.

Law enforcement. That's like, their job.

  • After they get it when they are authorized to get it. You cannot point at random things and call them evidence. For instance, I can take a dump and flush it, despite law enforcement's assertion that my stool is evidence in some imaginary crime.

    • It doesn’t have to be something the police have already collected. It could be something that they have yet to collect.

      The textbook tampering with evidence example is: drug dealer tries to flush the drugs when the police knock on the door.

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  • Without even looking if it's worthy of evidence or not?

    • Yes, absolutely. Something can be evidence if the police haven’t even seen it at all.

      For example: the police think you are running a fraud scheme. They knock on your door. You shred a bunch of paper. The police wanted to see what was on the paper. You have violated the US law on tampering with evidence.

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