tearing up crime photos

[disneykid52]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? any US state
Watching alot of crime shows I got to wondering,when the cops are interrogating you in the room and they show you crime photos, what would happen if you tear them up?

 

[cbg]

You'd be arrested for obstruction of justice and they'd print new copies of the photos.

 

[disneykid52]

And if youre just holding them (tightly) and the cop goes to take them from you and they get torn?

 

[quincy]

And if youre just holding them (tightly) and the cop goes to take them from you and they get torn?

You've really got to stop watching so many crime shows, disneykid.

 

[cbg]

What makes you think you'd be allowed to hold them at all?

Life is not "Law and Order".

Stop being silly.

 

[Ohiogal]

You'd be arrested for obstruction of justice and they'd print new copies of the photos.

There is also the issue of destruction of evidence that could happen. But felonies would be in your future. Well, disneykid's future. And I agree, he needs to quit watching so much tv.

 

[CavemanLawyer]

Nothing would happen. Everything is digital these days so the original copies would still be sitting on their server. If a police officer allowed any suspect/defendant to handle an original piece of evidence during an interrogation and it got destroyed then it'd be the officer that was in trouble.

 

[cbg]

Everything is digital these days so the original copies would still be sitting on their server.

Which is really the main point. Regardless of what did or did not happen to someone who "tore them up", it would not accomplish anything for that someone since the photos would still exist.

 

[swalsh411]

Nothing would happen. Everything is digital these days so the original copies would still be sitting on their server. If a police officer allowed any suspect/defendant to handle an original piece of evidence during an interrogation and it got destroyed then it'd be the officer that was in trouble.

But you're just a simple caveman, confused and frightened by modern technology!

 

[Proserpina]

Everything is digital these days so the original copies would still be sitting on their server.

Which is really the main point. Regardless of what did or did not happen to someone who "tore them up", it would not accomplish anything for that someone since the photos would still exist.

But I saw it on Law & Order!

It HAS to be true!

I also saw it on Teh Interwebz and you can't put fake stuff on Teh Interwebz! Everybody knows that!

 

[tranquility]

I hate to agree with someone always right, but I see no crime here. At best, a request through tort for the cost of reproduction. Only if the evidence presented was unique would there be an issue.

 

[single317dad]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? any US state
Watching alot of crime shows I got to wondering,when the cops are interrogating you in the room and they show you crime photos, what would happen if you tear them up?

What would happen if they let you hold the murder weapon and you ground it up into tiny pieces?
What would happen if they let you hold the pound of pot you were charged with transporting and you smoked it all up?

 

[quincy]

What would happen if they let you hold the murder weapon and you ground it up into tiny pieces?
What would happen if they let you hold the pound of pot you were charged with transporting and you smoked it all up?

Aw, geez, single317dad. Now you have given disneykid52 more things to ponder as he watches late night tv.

 

[cbg]

The question is too ridiculous for me to worry about. Obstruction, destruction, nothing at all, don't make no never mind to me. But I'm quite sure that disneykid is envisioning a scenario where the destruction of the photos results in the suspect having to be released for lack of evidence. He may rest assured that since other copies of the photos would exist, no such result would transpire.

 

[CavemanLawyer]

Tearing up the photos lacks originality. I think this would work much better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L5rginYAm4