Re: 1st Season New Amsterdam - Pilot - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !

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 "Obveeus" <Obveeus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> "jayembee" <jayembeenospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> news:Xns9A5ACB60435jayembeesnurcher@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > "Obveeus" <Obveeus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> >> I agree, though I will say that they did not seem to have enough
> >> evidence to win a conviction in this case. What are they going
> >> to do, have the cop claim he 'lip read' the confession?
> >
> > As someone else pointed out, he lip-read the argument between
> > father and son. He was close enough to hear the father's
> > confession to Eddie.
> 
> And what were the cir***stances of that 'confession'?  If you put a gun
to 
> someone's head and they confess to something they clearly believe you
want 
> them to confess to, it does not have any prayer of holding up in 
> court...unless, of course, you lie about the gun/threats being part of
the 
> situation.
> 
> > But even so, if a cop can testify that he heard a defendant
> > confess to a crime, he should also be able to testify that he
> > lip-read a defendant confess to a crime...as long as he can
> > demonstrate that he can, in fact, read lips. Lip-reading deaf
> > people can so testify.
> 
> Of course cops can testify.  The point is that cases with no written 
> confession and only a cops claim that the person confessed are far from 
> 'slam dunk' cases.  What we have seen in the first two episodes is
extremely 
> sloppy 'police work' conclusions.

If he hadn't smashed that mirror, though, he'd have the evidence to lock 
the old man away!!

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