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I thought there would be some exception for evidence that is effectively self-documenting. Sure the defense can try to claim it wasn't their guy or that the timestamp on it is wrong, but it seems unnecessary from a basic epistemic perspective to require that proactively.
Because there are so many. If thievery and crime was rarer, they would have more manpower per case which would lead to a higher conviction rate. Which would lead to crime getting rarer.
Well Rudy has gone off the deep end now, but a couple decades ago he pioneered a pretty good alternative in NYC.
The rules of evidence consider some items self-authenticating, but this is limited to things like public records where it's obvious to tell what the document is from looking at it. The only time this might apply to video is if it's an episode of a TV show or something like that. A CCTV video isn't self-authenticating in the slightest. I don't have time to get into every piece of information that the jury would need to know about the tape before we can show it to them, but, at the very least, you need someone to identify the location that's actually being filmed. A random store interior isn't going to be immediately and obviously recognizable as Aisle 6 of the Springfield Try n' Save.
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