Yes, you can go out and look into people’s background. No, you can’t just go present that to a court and get it accepted. Depending on what it is it might be accepted in a civil suit, but it would be circumstantial at best and most likely you’d be censured for trying to submit hearsay.
Courts and even civil cases just do not work like you are envisioning. Vigilante fact checking isn’t a thing, and agencies of the executive are subject to judicial rules just the same as you are.
You don’t understand enough about trial law, civil law enforcement or investigatory standards to be justifiably this adamant about this idea. You can’t find a magic way to frame this that will let you harass people via the legal system but somehow not make you a cop. This is the reason SLAPP suits almost never win - they’re pathetically baseless lawsuits, they just abuse the appeals system to bully people into giving up. You could do that, if you had the money, but you couldn’t enforce anything beyond using that mechanism to get your own way.
It’s not that I don’t understand what you’re suggesting, it’s that your understanding of the realities surrounding this issue is flat-out wrong and what you’re proposing is largely illegal were you to ever act on it.
Yes, you can go out and look into people’s background. No, you can’t just go present that to a court and get it accepted. Depending on what it is it might be accepted in a civil suit, but it would be circumstantial at best and most likely you’d be censured for trying to submit hearsay.
Courts and even civil cases just do not work like you are envisioning. Vigilante fact checking isn’t a thing, and agencies of the executive are subject to judicial rules just the same as you are.
You don’t understand enough about trial law, civil law enforcement or investigatory standards to be justifiably this adamant about this idea. You can’t find a magic way to frame this that will let you harass people via the legal system but somehow not make you a cop. This is the reason SLAPP suits almost never win - they’re pathetically baseless lawsuits, they just abuse the appeals system to bully people into giving up. You could do that, if you had the money, but you couldn’t enforce anything beyond using that mechanism to get your own way.
It’s not that I don’t understand what you’re suggesting, it’s that your understanding of the realities surrounding this issue is flat-out wrong and what you’re proposing is largely illegal were you to ever act on it.