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Mother Jones featured Haub Law Professor Bennett Gershman in "A Major Trump Forum Scrubs Its Archives of Thousands of Pre-Riot Posts"
Mother Jones featured Haub Law Professor Bennett Gershman in "A Major Trump Forum Scrubs Its Archives of Thousands of Pre-Riot Posts"
Bennett Gershman, a criminal and constitutional law professor at the Pace University School of Law says the removals could bring additional legal troubles. “Destroying evidence after you’ve committed a crime might itself be a crime. We’re talking about potentially tampering with evidence,” he says. “By removing these communications you’re evidencing a consciousness of guilt. Removing evidence that would incriminate you could be inferred that you engaged in criminal activity.”
To Gershman, the maps of the Capitol, combined with people actually having breached the Capitol, “could be explosive evidence that shows a high degree of planning…It’s like having a blueprint of the bank before a bank robbery.”
