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French Police Unsure Which Twin To Charge In Sexual Assaults
An anonymous reader writes "In a real life Prisoner's Dilemma taking place in the French city of Marseille, twin brothers have been arrested for a string of sexual assaults. While say they are sure that one of them committed the crimes (corroborated by a standard DNA test), police were told that it would cost upwards of €1m euros (£850,000, $1.3m USD) to distinguish between them using DNA evidence."
How exactly is the innocent one proclaiming his innocence obstructing justice?
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Wow, logic fail. I hope I never see you in a jury...
Perhaps then bill each of them for half the cost, for not cooperating.
Who says the innocent one isn't cooperating?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Yes, there is. There's just an upper bound to how much you can get here.
... and that's why those of us in civilised countries consider the US to have a similar legal system to the brutal Sharia law of countries like Afghanistan, Somalia and Mali, among others.
More succinctly, what is the future cost of allowing these two guys to go free to continue his/their crime spree? And what is the cost of all the copycat twins who'll do the same thing once a precedent has been set that the police won't prosecute twins if they can't tell which one did it?
If that cost is more than the 1 million euro test, then pay for the test.
If only one twin is responsible for the rapes, how do we know that that the other knows he did them? Maybe all one knows is that he didn't do them and, of course, the other twin who is responsible would likely make the same claim falsely.
Why is there an "insightful" mod and why isn't it "-1"? If I wanted insight, I wouldn't be reading
That's not justice, that's just about the complete opposite of justice. And it's one aspect of being American that I'm deeply ashamed of. There should be no incentive to plead guilty to a crime you didn't commit. The fact that, not only does it happen, but we actually have a name for it should be deeply concerning to anybody to cares about justice.