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Maze_
01/08/22 4:31:31 PM
#1:


Say Batman or Spider sees some punks mug an old woman or rob a bank and run off into the night.

Then they beat the ever loving piss out of them like Tuco at a drug deal and leave the battered criminals tied up outside a police station or tied to a lampost and vanish.

I'm not a lawyer or a cop but surely the police would have to just... kinda awkwardly let them go? Then arrest them later?

Even assuming they don't need to go to a hospital. If the police brought them in, surely a good defense lawyer could use that in a 100 different ways

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s0nicfan
01/08/22 4:32:53 PM
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This gets brought up every now and again in comics. There's one case where Superman vanishes for a year and when he comes back Luther isn't in jail because when his trial came up Superman wasn't around to testify so Luther got off because there were no witnesses.


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mustachedmystic
01/08/22 4:36:08 PM
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Well, in that scenario, the cops would have to let them go, not because the vigilante. . . I mean, hero, beat them up, but because they have nothing to charge them for. After all, they don't have a complainant, a witness, or any evidence.

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Maze_
01/08/22 4:39:57 PM
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mustachedmystic posted...
Well, in that scenario, the cops would have to let them go, not because the vigilante. . . I mean, hero, beat them up, but because they have nothing to charge them for. After all, they don't have a complainant, a witness, or any evidence.
Exactly

Even if the robbery was reported and the cops suspect these are the perps. The police on the spot surely have nothing right?

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mustachedmystic
01/08/22 4:43:07 PM
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They have something against Bat/Spiderman, assuming Tuco wants to press charges.

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