• LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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    15 hours ago

    That’s not the reason, though. Imperfect witnesses are quite often at the heart of criminal cases – co-conspirators, jailhouse informants, etc. If that was an obstacle, no mobsters or drug lords would ever have been convicted.

    The real reason is cronyism and political privilege.