• Shurimal
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    655 months ago

    The perfect catch-22. Carrying a smartphone? It will be seized, searched and used against you. Not carrying a smartphone? This fact itself is used as evidence against you. This is something straight outta NKVD playbook, Beria would be proud.

  • Kid_Thunder
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    605 months ago

    In short, his argument in court is that the lack of evidence is evidence of criminal intent.

  • @AVincentInSpace
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    5 months ago

    “How can you prove he was going to break the law?”

    “Your honor he owned a cheap cell phone, doesn’t that sound like he was using a burner”

    “Lmao fair enough. After all what possible use is there for a burner phone besides criminal activity, and what possible use is there for a cheap, prepaid cell phone except as a burner”

  • @Evkob@lemmy.ca
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    315 months ago

    Anyone else get confused by the apparent contradiction between the title and the short description?

    Here’s a excerpt from the article that accurately describes the AG’s (ridiculous) stance:

    […]according to Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, having a basic phone, or a phone with no data on it, or no phone at all in the year 2024, is evidence of criminal intent.

    • haui
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      135 months ago

      So the criminally insane are judges in the US. How original.

  • @nyan@lemmy.cafe
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    225 months ago

    Another good reason to stay away from the US in general and Georgia in particular.

  • @CaptObvious@literature.cafe
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    105 months ago

    I hope this judge allowed the Asst AG to make a laughable ass of himself to later publicly shame him. But it’s the US and the South, so who knows?