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Home Front: Politix
Judge Finds Grounds to Sanction Arizona Sheriff's Office
2010-02-14
Some officials in the office of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio have acknowledged deleting their e-mails about the patrols and throwing away and shredding officers' records of traffic stops made during the sweeps that might be interpreted to suggest discrimination against illegal immigrants.
Posted by:Chusogum the Scantily Clad3590

#1  It is a now well founded legal rule of thumb that any penalty for evidence destruction will be lower than the penalties associated with evidence preservation.

To start with, any penalty is based on intentions before the fact, so "ignorance of the law" actually *is* an excuse. Add to that no penalty for a supervisor who "forgot" to tell a subordinate *not* to destroy evidence, and evidence destruction is a joke.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2010-02-14 10:48  

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