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SCOTUS Expands Right to Sue Police Who Bring Baseless Charges

Practice of Law

But the jeweler also refused them, saying that he had just received a letter from the police department telling him he should retain the ring as evidence. When the officers had applied for an arrest warrant, they had to fill out an affidavit making the case for probable cause on all three charges.

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The Rise of “Post-Truth” Litigation: ALM’s Isha Marathe on How Deep Fakes Threaten the Legal System (TGIR Ep. 209)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

Marathe believes deep fakes have the potential to severely impact the integrity of evidence and the trial process if the legal system is unprepared. E-discovery professionals are on the front lines of detecting deep fakes used as evidence, according to Marathe. Trust in the integrity of evidence and trial outcomes could be at stake.