Originally Posted by
urbanknight
Kind of timely, but does this mean you disagree with the LAPD using people's personal videos of the riots after the Lakers game to make arrests for destruction of personal and public property?
That would be a recording of a specific crime in progress, right? So it would be allowable. Further, it would be accompanied by the testimony of the person who took the video as to when, where, and other circumstances.
The security camera a half block away that would only show when person was at a particular place... that should not be allowable. Barring any specific evidence of the guilt of the accused individuals, that evidence is far to dangerous as a vehicle for convicting the innocent. If specific evidence of guilt is presence, then that evidence is either redundant if the other evidence is strong, or prejudicial if it isn't.