"Independent Scheme Assurance Panel" report on ID cards published.

[Ian Batten]

On 12 May 08, at 1127, David Hansen wrote:

> On 12 May 2008 at 10:05, PeteM wrote:
>
>> Enhanced, all convictions and suspicions.
>
> Does that include malicious prosecutions, which means any prosecution
> where the victim was found innocent?

Sorry, I didn't catch this at the time.  Are you saying that on any  
occasion that someone is found innocent in a court, the only  
explanation is malice on the part of the police?  That the police know  
infallibly if someone is innocent or guilty, and then prosecute people  
they know to be innocent out of malice, and only people who are in  
that set are ever found innocent?

This implies, therefore, that if we could but find an honest policemen  
we could shut down the courts, because a policeman free from malice  
would be able to pass people guilty or innocent by themselves.

To believe that the only reason someone might be found innocent by a  
court is the malice of the police is quite a stretch, I think.

ian