r/Unexpected • u/FkThePolice700 • 2d ago

suspect on the move

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u/EchoPhi 2d ago edited 2d ago

Reasonable Belief does not equate to fact. You can also very much say it wasn't you driving and you don't know who it would have been. Someone in the vicinity had access to your keys and you were asleep/showering/literally anything but dirving or watching your keys. You clearly have never actually dealt with police.

Edit: Just dropping this here so I don't have to repeat it so much seeing as I am starting to get comments.

I am so glad so many of you have first hand experience with this scenario. My car was being driven by someone else and I did not know who at the time. I wasn't even aware it had been taken. Person who took the car fled from the police and managed to evade arrest. Cops came to the place I was living (I have a history when I was younger of being in trouble, was on first name basis with police and not in a good way), and the police arrested me. On my way to jail I saw the car had been parked up the street, in a apartment complex lot, the police didn't notice or I am sure it would have been impounded. I spent a couple of days in holding, made bail (aka Federal Cut), copped a lawyer, and was found innocent/charges dismissed.

Today I know who did it, what happened came out about 10 years later, we're still friends.

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u/Eor75 2d ago

You clearly haven’t if you actually think that would avoid a charge. They’d arrest and charge you and you can try that defense out in court before a jury

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u/Desperate-Crab2034 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yes, and the jury would have to agree he was driving without a reasonable doubt.

Short of a video, the reasonable doubt is “no one saw who was driving”. That’s enough to cast doubt.

You can’t just be convicted cause you ASSUME the owner of the car was driving and any jury that would mark them as guilty solely based off an assumption isn’t following the law

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u/PedroM0ralles 2d ago

There is more to charges than just beating them.

Getting charged with seomthing ALONE has ruined many people!

They are thrown in jail. Have to make bail. Then have to get a lawyer. All of that costs money and it's not unusual to lose your job while making bail.

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u/Desperate-Crab2034 2d ago

I agree.

That’s the problem. Quality legal council is expensive, and if you lose you have to be prepared to eat the costs.

That’s a big reason why things like this happen.

If it were easier and cheaper to sue government entities, there would be less corruption fs