The Lemmy Club
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
cricbuzz [he/him]@hexbear.net to Main, home of the dope ass bear.@hexbear.netEnglish · 30 days ago

Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera

san.com

external-link
message-square
17
link
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • politicaloptimism@piefed.social
  • DeFlock@sh.itjust.works
  • privacy@programming.dev
  • hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
124
external-link

Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera

san.com

cricbuzz [he/him]@hexbear.net to Main, home of the dope ass bear.@hexbear.netEnglish · 30 days ago
message-square
17
link
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • politicaloptimism@piefed.social
  • DeFlock@sh.itjust.works
  • privacy@programming.dev
  • hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
The grand jury's decision not to charge Cody Morelock comes amid a growing backlash against Flock and its cameras.
alert-triangle
You must log in or register to comment.
  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    55
    ·
    30 days ago

    lol at first i thought it was a regular trial jury deciding to aquit, but damn if a prosecutor can’t get a grand jury to indict, lmao.

    • free_casc [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      50
      ·
      30 days ago

      For those unfamiliar: the “grand jury” looked at all the evidence presented by the cops and ruled “no crime has been committed here, we don’t even need to have a trial (with a whole other trial jury) because we dont see any possibility of crime”

      • TreadOnMe [none/use name]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        36
        ·
        30 days ago

        In addition, “grand juries” are notoriously easy for prosecutors influence and get an indictment (basically a go-ahead to proceed to a jury trial). The saying among defense attorneys is that grand juries are so easy to persuade, even a mildy competent prosecutor could get a grand jury to ‘indict a ham sandwich’.

        So if they weren’t able to get it past a grand jury, they either had absolutely no case, screwed something up majorly in presentation, or these camera are extremely and universally unpopular.

        • Runcible [none/use name]@hexbear.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          26
          ·
          30 days ago

          There’s no defense presented at the grand jury, it’s just the prosecution presenting

          • TreadOnMe [none/use name]@hexbear.net
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            26
            ·
            30 days ago

            Hence why defense lawyers despise it as a part of the process, because it predisposes the jury to believe that a crime was committed.

        • MarxMadness [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          8
          ·
          29 days ago

          Investigators, according to WKRC-TV in Cincinnati, identified Morelock after obtaining surveillance footage from other cameras near the scene as well as information linked to a credit card and a customer rewards account.

          Sounds like they had enough evidence – I’m betting it’s the “universally unpopular” explanation.

      • Athena5898 [any]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        27
        ·
        30 days ago

        Oooh boy we are going to have a hissy fit from the ruling class.

        • free_casc [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          27
          ·
          30 days ago

          People on here talk about doing some jury jullification if they every get selected, but I encourage everyone to go a step farther and research how they can apply to be on a grand jury in their local area.

  • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    36
    ·
    30 days ago

    free-real-estate It’s free solar panels and sometimes batteries.

  • Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    30
    ·
    30 days ago

    first the guy who threw a sandwich, now this.

    • Johnny_Arson [she/her]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      28
      ·
      30 days ago

      Really funny given the old lawyer adage that you can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.

  • ClassIsOver [none/use name, any]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    20
    ·
    30 days ago

    Watch them try to have a retrial until they can get a grand jury that will indict.

  • DornerStan@lemmygrad.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    19
    ·
    30 days ago

    Interesting. Unfortunately short on details, so I’m going to assume the case was dismissed due to mishandled or lack of evidence, rather than the grand jury deciding dismantling stalking devices isn’t a criminal offense.

  • Robert_Kennedy_Jr [xe/xem, xey/xem]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    29 days ago

    So each Flock camera is worth $1000 or did he take out multiple cameras. That seems grossly inflated right.

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      29 days ago

      Each one is basically a camera, an android (iirc) phone, a solar panel, and a battery of some sort. Thousand bucks sounds right, with the current price of things. Heck of a steal just laying around out there on the side of the road.

  • segfault11 [she/her, any]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    29 days ago

    who would win in a fight, florida man or ohio man

    • cricbuzz [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      29 days ago

      trick question. ohioans are all snowbirds in florida

Main, home of the dope ass bear.@hexbear.net

main@hexbear.net

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !main@hexbear.net

THE MAIN RULE: ALL TEXT POSTS MUST CONTAIN “MAIN” OR BE ENTIRELY IMAGES (INLINE OR EMOJI)

(Temporary moratorium on main rule to encourage more posting on main. We reserve the right to arbitrarily enforce it whenever we wish and the right to strike this line and enforce mainposting with zero notification to the users because its funny)

A hexbear.net commainity. Main sure to subscribe to other communities as well. Your feed will become the Lion’s Main!

Good comrades mainly sort posts by hot and comments by new!


gun-unity State-by-state guide on maintaining firearm ownership

guaido Domain guide on mutual aid and foodbank resources

smoker-on-the-balcony Tips for looking at financials of non-profits (How to donate amainly)

frothingfash Community-sourced megapost on the main media sources to radicalize libs and chuds with

just-a-theory An Amainzing Organizing Story

feminism Main Source for Feminism for Babies

data-revolutionary Maintaining OpSec / Data Spring Cleaning guide


ussr-cry Remain up to date on what time is it in Moscow

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 1 user / day
  • 251 users / week
  • 586 users / month
  • 1.47K users / 6 months
  • 9 local subscribers
  • 16.2K subscribers
  • 3.04K Posts
  • 29.6K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • liberal [none/use name]@hexbear.net
  • marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]@hexbear.net
  • Koolio [any]@hexbear.net
  • WhyEssEff [she/her]@hexbear.net
  • LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]@hexbear.net
  • Alaskaball [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
  • BE: 0.19.20
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org