>From: "Michael S. Lorrey" <retroman@turbont.net>
>
>Any means of gathering evidence not under immediate human supervision
>and control is mere hearsay evidence, no matter how accurate or well
>time stamped it is.
Perhaps. But "mere hearsay" is not the same as inadmissible, or not
convincing. There are many exceptions to the so-called "hearsay evidence
rule". And hearsay evidence is admitted into evidence all the time. Film
of you running a red light would pretty much nail you, unless you came up
with a very convincing excuse. If automated evidence were useless,
convenience stores across the country would not be wasting so much money on
surveillance cameras.
-Zero
"I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past"
--Thomas Jefferson
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