02-22-2023, 09:43 PM
(02-03-2023, 09:31 AM)Sled21 Wrote: No, you're confusing probable cause and reasonable suspicion. They are different standards. A person can go to court and sign a criminal complaint alleging just about anything. The kicker is this is a sworn document. That's reasonable suspicion and a warrant can be issued by the court. Probable Cause is established at the Preliminary Hearing where a judge will hear enough testimony to decide if there is probable cause to send it to the Grand Jury. At the Grand Jury, only the prosecution gets to present it's evidence, and the GJ decided if there is enough evidence for it to go to trial. I could go to the court this morning and state me and Psychdoctor got in an argument, and he pulled a gun on me. The thing is, I have to be willing to sign on the dotted line it is a sworn statement, and if I'm lying, I am subject to prosecution myself.
Isn't it just strange that laws have clauses to preclude the innocent from bogus charges and there's a way to maybe determine who really is guilty as opposed to just making an accusation and having someone tossed in the hoosegow just because they might have given someone a dirty look? You'd think this day and age we could get just anyone tossed in prison for life on a whim, huh? I mean..I saw someone whose hair I didn't like the other day. Wouldn't it be more fair if I could have them executed and make their hair just disappear?
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