• hotspur
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    313 months ago

    So some fishy stuff to be sure, but I don’t think cash or the “faraday” bag are key pieces of evidence. The gun and the manifesto, if real, are key pieces of evidence. And he didn’t say those were planted according to the article, which makes the headline a little misleading.

    • AmericaDelendaEst [comrade/them]
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      693 months ago

      but, as everyone keeps saying whenever this comes up, the only reason they’re talking about this is because they were trying to deny him bail and they cited the cash and the bag, which is why he made a statement on those things, but not the other things (which were not being brought up to deny him bail)

      • hotspur
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        173 months ago

        Yeah that’s a valid point re: their argument to deny bail, forgot about that. And that would also be plausible for why they would plant stuff when they already had more damning evidence, they wanted to make sure he wasn’t getting bail.

      • TheDoctor [they/them]
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        93 months ago

        Even this explanation may be extrapolating too heavily. I think we’re going to have to wait for the trial to really see what happened

        • ferristriangle [he/him]
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          163 months ago

          Yeah, that’s the idea. This hearing was not the murder trial, so evidence pertaining to guilt or innocence is unlikely to have been discussed since it was not relevant to the matter at hand.

          Which, as you said, means we have to wait for the trial to know anything conclusively. But the fact that he only disputed the cash does not necessarily mean he is admitting to the rest of it.