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colejohnson66 on Sept 16, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Congressional inquiry faults Boeing and FAA failur...

> Working backwards from a desired claim to generate only supporting facts would reinforce only that claim.

It’s called parallel construction. When police use it, it’s grounds to get your whole case thrown out (for very valid reasons... if you can prove it).

jacquesm on Sept 16, 2020 [–]

No, that's when you find new, plausible evidence to support the thing that you weren't allowed to do in the first place so you can pretend you didn't break the law while gathering evidence. This has nothing to do with the case at hand.

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

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