“They took screen shots of messages containing graphic language, obtained by the Examiner,”
Sound like this was the evidence.
No follow up to this statement in the article. Were the messages from the defendant? If part of a close and reactivated account a year later, facebook probably wouldn’t have archives of the deleted messages.
When tales get long and meandering I start to doubt them and their authors.
Anyway, never sit under questioning without your lawyer.
The “they” in this instance are fellow high school students who may have had their own agenda. Ordinary emails purportedly from others are quite easy to fabricate (although in this case the medium may have been more difficult or impossible) and the Examiner no doubt ran with whatever it received vs this Republican.
Am slightly inclined to go with the wrongly accused at this point, although it would be nice to hear the other side of the argument.
FB would have copies of the deleted messages; if it was ever on FB, they have it. According to a recent discovery, they even track messages you started to type, but decided not to post.
The “screenshots” could have been easily fabricated. I wonder if the prosecutor even attempted to authenticate them. I seriously doubt it. This sounds like a political witch hunt to me.
Yes, someone said they took screen prints, yet the article doesn’t say there actually are any.
Political prosecution/persecution is nothing unusual for democrats — look up Ronnie Earle some time.
The problem with liberals is the total lack of morality and the belief that the end justifies the means. That includes perverting the justice system.