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No one was immune: Israel Police Pegasus surveillance list revealed

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Re: No one was immune: Israel Police Pegasus surveillance list revealed

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Has the potential to invalidate the ongoing corruption trial of the previous prime minister Netanyahu - fruit of the poison tree and all that. The original news story: https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3928830...

Hope not. That guy should be committed of crimes against humanity.

Re: No one was immune: Israel Police Pegasus surveillance list revealed

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Has the potential to invalidate the ongoing corruption trial of the previous prime minister Netanyahu - fruit of the poison tree and all that. The original news story: https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3928830...

Israeli law doesn't recognise that principal, perhaps because Israeli law derives from UK legal principles in places. See https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.haaretz.com/amp/israel-news... (AMP link but avoids paywall)

Re: No one was immune: Israel Police Pegasus surveillance list revealed

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Has the potential to invalidate the ongoing corruption trial of the previous prime minister Netanyahu - fruit of the poison tree and all that. The original news story: https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3928830...

Israeli law doesn't recognise that principal, perhaps because Israeli law derives from UK legal principles in places. See https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.haaretz.com/amp/israel-news... (AMP link but avoids paywall)

Perhaps, but the court of public opinion seems to already have made a decision.

Re: No one was immune: Israel Police Pegasus surveillance list revealed

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Israeli law doesn't recognise that principal, perhaps because Israeli law derives from UK legal principles in places. See https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.haaretz.com/amp/israel-news... (AMP link but avoids paywall)

Perhaps, but the court of public opinion seems to already have made a decision.

I seriously doubt that, and besides -- it is up to judges whether evidence are admitted, not public opinion.

Re: No one was immune: Israel Police Pegasus surveillance list revealed

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Has the potential to invalidate the ongoing corruption trial of the previous prime minister Netanyahu - fruit of the poison tree and all that. The original news story: https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3928830...

View from the outside

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/07/israel-state-i...

Re: No one was immune: Israel Police Pegasus surveillance list revealed

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Israeli law doesn't recognise that principal, perhaps because Israeli law derives from UK legal principles in places. See https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.haaretz.com/amp/israel-news... (AMP link but avoids paywall)

Perhaps, but the court of public opinion seems to already have made a decision.

Reminds me of Eliot Spitzer.

An executive can't use corruption of process under them as a shield or all corrupt executives would rely on damage to due process to be unaccountable.