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themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · vor 5 Tagen

A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months

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A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months

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themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · vor 5 Tagen
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  • HarryLime [any]@hexbear.net
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    Feel like the guy’s lawyer is as much to blame as the cops here tbh

  • FourteenEyes [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    How the fuck did he get a conviction with zero evidence nothing connecting him to this girl no images on any of his devices what the fuck

    • chgxvjh [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Probably plea deal. 18 month sounds low for a conviction otherwise.

      But I don’t really feel like googling what usual times are.

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        It’s not a plea deal. He was convicted in court by a judge on the basis that he owned the username, so whether or not there was evidence on his device (could be deleted) was irrelevant to them, they had the evidence of receiving it on the other device from what they believed was the username he owned.

        • chgxvjh [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          Damn. That’s some weak shit.

  • MLRL_Commie [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Damn hope he got a lot of compensation for ruining his life. It’s gonna be hard to get a job and be safe after this

  • Euergetes [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    just normal bourgeois justice grains

  • invalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    New username soon to be ___A_W___O__O______

  • chgxvjh [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Police were looking for a man using the Kik messaging service under the name “fus__ro_dah” (two underscores after “fus”), but they accidentally requested records for the username “fus_ro_dah” (one underscore after “fus”). This one-character difference led them not to the perpetrator but to a Canadian man named Brandon Klayme.

    Lazy writing. There is really no more reason to think that the same writing would mean that the account belongs to the perpetrator.

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    Damn good thing we are here and not on a removed site.

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