It's a matter of court jurisdiction over evidence. Third parties, such as Centurion Ministries, are not legal triers of fact and thus should not be granted the opportunity to seek and test evidence from cases.
This establishes a risky precedent. It would be like a private citizen, asserting a right to take the "magic bullet" from the JFK assassination and seeking to independently test it to see if their theory about the Grassy Knoll were true. Such openness of availability of evidence to private citizens whims would be a slippery slope towards the demise of the criminal justice system.
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Slippery slope for courts.
Date: 2006-01-06 03:51 pm (UTC)This establishes a risky precedent. It would be like a private citizen, asserting a right to take the "magic bullet" from the JFK assassination and seeking to independently test it to see if their theory about the Grassy Knoll were true. Such openness of availability of evidence to private citizens whims would be a slippery slope towards the demise of the criminal justice system.