CNN reports on the emergence of modern-day ‘wanted’ billboards.
According to the authorities, eight of the 10 suspects shown on billboards in the Kansas City, Missouri, area have been arrested, seven of them because of the billboards. But the ads raise legal concerns for Marc Mezibov, a defense attorney in Cincinnati, where the city’s first wanted billboard was went up recently.
If a client’s face and name were posted on billboards ascribing some horrendous crime to him, I would certainly raise issues with the court about whether he could receive a fair trial
he said, adding that he might request the trial be moved.
Police in the UK are already copying the FBI’s legendary ‘most wanted’ site: maybe it’s only a matter of time before we see posters like these on the side of the no. 38 bus.
CNN has the full story.
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