Oprah's Head, Ann-Margaret's Body: A Brief History of Pre-Photoshop Fakery
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Given the possibility for high quality fake picture/videos, has anyone ever tried to use fake evidence in order in order to throw out real ones?
Let's assume this scenario: Jeff got pulled over for running a red light. There is video recording of this being used as evidence in court. If Jeff is able to produce the exact same video with same timestamp, except this time it has the prosecutor sitting in the car, can he argue that since they both look real, and obviously can't both be real, both would have to be thrown out?
It seems to me once this happens, all evidence of the same type would have a higher bar of being acceptable as real.
But basically, no. There is a burden of proof on the prosecution to show the evidence has not been tampered with after taken from an official source, but recreating the same thing wouldn't change anything - unless you were able to prove the IAS was flawed and could be duplicated (Nikon had this problem a year or two ago).