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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCops used Photoshop to alter a defendant's photo to make him look more like a robbery suspect
Portland police used Photoshop to alter a defendant's photo to make him look more like a robbery suspect. Now, he'll be released from jail
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2021/07/the-case-of-the-mugshot-with-the-missing-tattoos-concludes-on-hopeful-note-its-like-hitting-the-lottery.html
Ahlemeyer then moved to suppress the evidence.
On the witness stand, a police forensic criminalist admitted he had painted over the tattoos on Allens face using Photoshop before including the mugshot in a photo line-up that detectives showed to witnesses in each of the bank robberies.
None of the tellers had reported seeing tattoos on the face of the man who robbed them. Several of the tellers picked out Allens photo.
RainCaster
(10,866 posts)That should be very illegal, IMO.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,326 posts)Iggo
(47,549 posts)How many didnt?
FakeNoose
(32,633 posts)Did the cops get the wrong guy, and make the photo look like the perp with tattoos? Or did they get the right guy, and change the photo because it doesn't show the tattoos that he really has?
Maybe I'm wrong, but it's obvious the cops were negligent and what they did was illegal.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,306 posts)The witnesses never described any face tattoos, but they guy they arrested had some very obvious ones. So they altered his photo so that it had no tattoos, then stuck it in a bunch of photos, and some of the witnesses said that was the robber.
Not so much 'negligent' as 'malicious'. There's good reason to believe he's innocent.
Iggo
(47,549 posts)...every cop, criminalist, and prosecutor who knew about this would have to do the time they tried to hang on Mr. Allen.
But there ain't.