Would think they would be important identifiers. Judge tampering with evidence?
“Would think they would be important identifiers. Judge tampering with evidence?”
Yeah, you hit the nail on the head here. This isn’t a judge being nice, this is totally tampering with evidence.
A jury is NOT supposed to take previous crimes into account during a deliberation .. But if he starts seig-heiling in the court and blurting out racial comments a judge rarely asks the jury to strike such things.
And besides.. like I tell all tattoo aficionados... That shit is permanent. Act like it.
A rapidly-spreading trend among law enforcement agencies is the practice of wrapping a towel around all the arrestees' necks and shoulders for mugshot photos, because *some* have visible neck tattoos. Witnesses were looking for only the tattoo and were identifying the wrong person based on that.