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   Nate Bartram (nateb@mastodon.thenewoil.org)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 11:06:24 JST Nate Bartram

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   @evacide Witnesses get paid? This seems like an ethical conflict...

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     Tim W RESISTS (tim@union.place)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 11:06:23 JST Tim W RESISTS

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     @nateb @evacide "expert witness" means someone giving some kind of technical background to the court. Not a witness in the sense of "saw something happen."

     That said it still is, in fact, an area where there's lots of room for conflicts of interest and ethics.

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     Tim W RESISTS (tim@union.place)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 11:11:33 JST Tim W RESISTS

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     @nateb @evacide sorry, couldn't hear the sarcasm.

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     Nate Bartram (nateb@mastodon.thenewoil.org)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 11:11:34 JST Nate Bartram

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     @tim @evacide Oh I know the difference.

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     Tim W RESISTS (tim@union.place)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 03:10:35 JST Tim W RESISTS

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     @nateb @evacide sorry, I made several embedded incorrectassumptions based on your phrasing.

     I agree that the US judicial system is a disaster in these ways, among many others. 😞

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     Nate Bartram (nateb@mastodon.thenewoil.org)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 03:10:36 JST Nate Bartram

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     @tim @evacide It's not sarcasm. Just saying, I know there's a difference, and the fact that expert witnesses get paid is alarming. I mean, I guess there's an argument to be made that someone is taking time out of their day and you're compensating them accordingly but... I dunno. That same argument could be made for the jury (I got $20 for a whole day last time, that's definitely not my going rate) or the defendant or anybody, really.