Melissa Sims said her nightmare began after she called police during an argument with her boyfriend, when she said he allegedly ransacked her home.

Melissa Sims said her nightmare began after she called police during an argument with her boyfriend, when she said he allegedly ransacked her home.

  • RegularJoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    54·
    2 months ago

    After eight months of legal wrangling by her attorney, prosecutors dropped the bond violation charge against her. And, last month, she went to trial on the battery charge and was acquitted.

    • Ech@lemmy.caEnglish
      37·
      2 months ago

      After eight months of legal wrangling by her attorney, prosecutors dropped the bond violation charge against her.

      How was this not handled within 24 hours by checking the fucking phone records??

      • Mirshe@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        Because that takes more time and actual work. By forcing her to trial, prosecutors and police get to up their numbers.

      • FreedomAdvocateEnglish
        21·
        2 months ago

        Most messaging services that people use these days aren’t showing up in “phone records”.

        • Ech@lemmy.caEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          she said her boyfriend created an AI-generated text that called him names and made disparaging comments.

          Texts would show up on phone records.

          • FreedomAdvocateEnglish
            12·
            2 months ago

            “Text” is almost always used no matter what actual messaging service was used.

            Also how would AI have sent a SMS to his phone from her? It was likely an ai generated screenshot of messages.

            • Ech@lemmy.caEnglish
              3·
              2 months ago

              Also how would AI have sent a SMS to his phone from her?

              It’s almost like that’s my point.

              • FreedomAdvocateEnglish
                12·
                2 months ago

                But “phone records”, whatever that means, won’t show telegram/imessage/signal/fb messenger/etc messages.