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    1. GRed-saintevil on

      In another news:

      > The new amendment completely *anonymizes* the identities of key witnesses — the ones whose testimony can lead to charges or a guilty verdict.

      > Specifically, anyone cooperating with investigators can now have their identity hidden in all investigative materials, procedural documents, and at any stage of the trial. Their name will never appear, their identity can’t be revealed, and they can’t be cross-examined in court.

      > This means a guilty verdict can be based on the testimony of a “main witness” whose identity is known only to the prosecutor and judge — and the defense will have no right to cross-examine or verify them. They can’t even confirm whether it’s the same fake witness used in every case (a tactic the MIA has been caught using multiple times before).

      **TL;DR**

      The Georgian police can now claim to find 5 grams of weed on you, back it up with a secret „witness“ whose identity is hidden from everyone, and lock you up for 6 years.

    2. CMDR_Agony_Aunt on

      Who wants to testify that they saw Ivanishvilli’s son smoking weed?

    3. left_control on

      Look, this is obviously so they could plant evidence and intimidate anyone. But nobody will mind, nobody will protest, because now they can take 6 years for speaking up against it.

      It’s a perfect trick to rule them all!

    4. External_Tangelo on

      Never forget that the government of Georgia is the largest drug distributor in the country, maintaining for free the opioid habits of tens of thousands of uneducated, unemployed men in return for political allegiance and a bit of street violence when called upon.

    5. For some perspective, Canada was the first nation in the world to fully legalize weed. Do you want to know what happened after weed was legalized about 7 years ago? Nothing. Literally nothing. The society didn’t collapse. People didn’t suddenly become drug addicts. There was a brief period of novelty to it, but it has become just another item on the grocery list along with stopping at the liquor store to get wine. In fact, it has become such a non-issue that the estimates that the Canadian government had for tax revenues from weed sales haven’t met those expectations after the first year of legalization

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