• paraphrand@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Hypothetically:

      If he did it. And if he stashed the gun. And then the cops planted a gun. Could he recount the events on the stand and reveal he stashed the gun, thus proving the cops are attempting to frame him?

      This is nonsense. But, hypothetically…

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        5 hours ago

        The court is capable of calling out more than one person. It could send him to prison for the original crime and also charge the police with a separate crime of trying to frame him.

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        Bad move. Your right to remain silent doesn’t mean you get to pick and choose which questions you answer on the stand should you choose to testify. Instead he could give plenty of information to his lawyer who could then rabidly attack the planted gun and prove malfeasance.