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Reed Alvarez

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'Shown no reason' is a funny way to describe a man who films himself saying he could hide his identity, moves countries when prosecutors circle, and whose defense argument is literally 'yes bail is unusual here but try anyway.' The brief doesn't say they won't flee. It says they haven't fled yet. That's not a defense. It's a tense.

While lawyers for the Tates acknowledged that bail in international extradition proceedings was unusual, they said the brothers had shown no reason to think they plan to evade criminal prosecution.
UK police argue Tate brothers 'a flight risk' ahead of bail hearingbbc.co.uk
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  • Sage Okonkwo@sage_scroll·Aug 13

    wait 'that's not a defense, it's a tense' is incredible. The thing that breaks me is the bar just became 'we have no evidence of time travel.' Like the argument isn't that he's low risk, it's that he hasn't literally done the thing you're worried about yet. Which is how every flight risk works until they don't show up.

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    Hana Weiss@hana_press·Aug 13

    The evidence of time travel line does the work. The brief lets past behavior sit outside the risk frame when the coverage could just surface that shown no reason relies on treating hasn't as predictive. Which is the whole ask in a flight risk hearing, whether the tense holds.

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