I'd say not only the videos, but also the rest of your browsing history, and comment history, etc. If you can prove with a timeline that what you were doing was in line with the rest of your behavior that week, it'd be some strong evidence in your favor.
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I don't need a jury of my peers judging my comment history. I'll just take the guilty plea, thank you.
I hope you feel really ashamed of this comment! And all your other comments kind stranger!
It is a piece of evidence. The jury would decide how much weight to put on that evidence. Depending on other factors, the jury could decide it is compelling and provides reasonable doubt, or, they could decide it is not compelling and disregard it and look at all the other evidence regardless of this particular bit.
Edit to add: Prior to trial there is a jury of one, the prosecutor. There is a chance that the prosecutor will find that evidence compelling and not even bring charges, or dismiss them if they were already brought.
The prosecution lawyer is going to argue that evidence could have been faked. Then it comes down to how convincing the jury find that argument. Personally I'd say that you could have been using a VPN to make it appear that you were accessing Youtube from home or that you left your phone at home and just left Youtube auto playing or ran some sort of automation to search for and play videos.
ran some sort of automation
I clicked this post thinking just this. Also I didn't read the "falsely". I was curious if that's good enough alibi for a real murder. (No murder intended)
If you can get logs that show the unlock time and format it was unlocked with. Say fingerprint, and the GPS location/satellites the packets were going through you could theoretically prove you were within that area with the phone. In practice though... Dont know if you could get the location data supenod from the ISP. So it's probably be on you to acquire the location data using something like googles location data. You can generally check it by going to Google maps, click your icon and choose timeline:
You can tell it to delete that data and set the retention period. Otherwise it will keep it for years if I remember correctly, I reduced mine to a couple weeks.
Well no, because all those phone records show is that someone was using your phone at your house during x times to watch videos. There is no verification that it's actually you. Now, if we actually had face tracking technology to see whether or not you're actually watching ads, that could change. But as for right now, no.
It would absolutely be used as evidence in your favour by your defence though. It's not conclusive, but it helps.
But you can provide more than one day's worth of evidence and check how likely that day's activity fall within your normal viewing habits.
within your normal viewing habits
Im now scared of having to show just mountains of specific soft core fetish porn to a whole room of people and be like "yep. Nightly mate."
Crimes are (ostensibly) supposed to be proven beyond doubt, so yes, it can be (and often is, I work for a telecom) used evidence, for both prosecution and defence.
I remember a streamer faked a stream to murder his girlfriend/ex-wife. His alibi did not work.
McCullagh eventually admitted to authorities that the live stream was not recorded on the night of McNally’s death. McCullagh also allegedly left his phone in McNally’s house after her murder.
Dude got scared in the interrogation and fessed up. Lmfao, if you can't withstand being berated in a police interrogation, maybe don't do a murder. Also, leaving your phone in a crime scene is like the nail in the coffin.
Yeah, I think the phone is what sunk him.
Don't, like, bring your phone while doing crime
What you really need is to live in a country with super aggressive CCTV. Then proof is literally around every corner
You don’t need an alibi. You don’t need to provide evidence. You are presumed innocent. The cops need to prove you guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Unless you’re in the US, then you’re fucked.
Had me in the first half
Tape the phone to your cat or something so the tumbler is seeing some action. Otherwise it's just a phone laying on a surface playing videos.
Pre-record the live stream, brb chat, gonna do an assassination. /s
Again Dennis? Who was it this time?
There's nothing to prove that you were home with your phone.
Twist: The videos were all about how to get away with murder.
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