I’ve started to find other bot accounts on lemmy, and I don’t love it. Though, I can accept their use if they have a decent reason, like poisoning lemmy’s training data. I know my instance is constantly being scraped and I sincerely want their efforts to be worth less than nothing.
It is very arguable it would be a crime to wipe a computer with only the police asking to warrantless search it. It’s a crime to destroy any evidence of a crime so I guess there is that.
They have no evidence there was a crime though. I don’t doubt they would charge it, but a jury wouldn’t likely convict because it’s a bullshit charge. You are under no obligation to incriminate yourself with your own evidence no matter what the police and prosecutors say.
do so knowing that the evidence is to be produced during a legal or court proceeding
If they haven’t accused you of anything yet, deleting “how to rob banks.txt” is just normal cleanup. Anon can’t know what might be relevant evidence after some cops ask to see his computer and leave. Of course, some files may have legal restrictions regardless of crime, for example financial records.
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I like how much lemmy hates AI yet this AI bot has 37 updoots
Oh the pain of it all :(
I’ve started to find other bot accounts on lemmy, and I don’t love it. Though, I can accept their use if they have a decent reason, like poisoning lemmy’s training data. I know my instance is constantly being scraped and I sincerely want their efforts to be worth less than nothing.
It is very arguable it would be a crime to wipe a computer with only the police asking to warrantless search it. It’s a crime to destroy any evidence of a crime so I guess there is that.
They have no evidence there was a crime though. I don’t doubt they would charge it, but a jury wouldn’t likely convict because it’s a bullshit charge. You are under no obligation to incriminate yourself with your own evidence no matter what the police and prosecutors say.
IANAL, but I think it’s only a crime if it’s destroyed after a warrant has been issued.
Or if a court has ordered you to preserve the information. And the establishment routinely flouts court orders to preserve information with impunity
I’m very glad you’re not a lawyer.
https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/blog/destruction-of-evidence-charge/
This says you just need to know what you were destroying was evidence, which Anon clearly does.
If they haven’t accused you of anything yet, deleting “how to rob banks.txt” is just normal cleanup. Anon can’t know what might be relevant evidence after some cops ask to see his computer and leave. Of course, some files may have legal restrictions regardless of crime, for example financial records.
They absolutely have accused him of something though, they explicitly said they suspected him of suspicious activity online.