What's your take on Judge Schroeder's ruling in the Rittenhouse case that the prosecution can't use pinch-to-zoom because it alters the video footage?
In the Rittenhouse trial today, Judge Schroeder ruled in favor of the defense’s motion to forbid the prosecution from using pinch-to-zoom on a video because Apple’s iPad might be using AI to alter the pixels (it doesn’t). Schroeder said the burden of proof was on the prosecutors to prove that Apple’ wasn’t altering the image instead of the defense to prove that it was and gave the prosecution a mere 20 minutes to find an expert to prove to him that pinch-to-zoom was not altering the image.
What’s your take? Were you surprised by this ruling? I would expect this issue would have been settled long ago in case law.
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