I’m a resident. I’m not going to NOT take part in my community because a mod didn’t like my opinion on something.

Media vs law. Attorneys, no. Media, yes. Generates more stories and clicks by sacrificing safety.

My main is banned from here, won’t go into specifics. The trial is today isn’t it? The “slow” argument doesn’t hold up.

Touché. I’m not in law.

But there is also no reason to release it before the trial. What is the point of that? Inciting protests or riots? I’m just seeing different priorities between media and law.

Dropbox links can be set by the owner to allow anyone with the link to view or only allow specific people. I guess it depends on the document; if intended for the jury then the prosecution wouldn’t have all their email addresses to set permissions.

Local news reporting now so point is sort of moot from my civilian perspective. Still, if this is declared a mistrial despite the glaring issues the video shows, it’s gonna be a new can of worms.

Well isn’t that scummy and corrupt, the video speaks for itself. There was obviously zero need for it to be leaked. Looks like the prosecution is allowing activism to take priority over due process. It’s like they want a mistrial.

Wonder if WAPO is in the habit of just snooping at random Dropbox links. I bet they were tipped off. Unbelievable that this got to National news before our own local.

Edit: I’m not mad the video got leaked, I’m mad about how it happened.

The DA filed a motion to suppress this, how does WAPO just get it and publish it before our local news? I agree with the prosecution, but the DA claims that there’s a lack of fair trial is starting to show some merit.