<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Zev Sero <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zev@sero.name">zev@sero.name</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Moshe Y. Gluck wrote:<br>
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R' Eli Turkel:<br>
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about the effect of police doing things wrong on the subsequent trial<br>
evidence.<br>
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what does halacha say?<br>
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Is there such a thing as evidence according to Halachah? Fingerprints, sound<br>
or video recordings, expert testimony, etc. - are they admissible in Beis<br>
Din?<br>
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Such evidence would be admitted by BD in order to impeach witnesses.<br>
And I see no reason to believe that BD would care in the least how this<br>
evidence was obtained. It speaks for itself, after all. If it relies<br>
on the testimony of the person who got it, then of course his wrongdoing<br>
might make him pasul le'edut. But the exclusionary rule is something<br>
that was invented by USAn judges in the early 20th century, and would<br>
seem to have no more place in halacha than it does in any other legal<br>
system.<br><font color="#888888">
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Zev Sero </font></blockquote></div><br><br>See KSA yomi for the last few days. There is a concept of midvar sheder tirchak andwhen a man standing by silently who knows NO testimony but is there for appearances only [to intimate one of the baalei din] he is "ohveir" -even though he makes ZERO false statements.<br>
<br>I am not saying for sure that this applies to Zev's case but it is worth contemplating and researching <br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br>RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a><br>
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