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Alexandra, a Montreal-based lawyer, went to the Riverside bar in St. Vital on June 6, where a person working security scanned her driver's licence at the door using a Patronscan ID scanner.
Alexandra soon learned the Winnipeg bar is part of Patronscan's flag network, a system the Calgary-based platform uses to alert other venues about problematic people.
Here are 2017 numbers (ok...only 96% that year). https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
That one study has been thoroughly debunked...yet decades later it still gets cited.
https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2013/06/04/feds-no-longer-ba...
To my knowledge, the only group that tried to test bike helmets against a car is Volvo -- and all helmets failed.
https://diysolarforum.com/threads/battleborn-batteries-suein...
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/10/09/iterm2-critical...
5th amendment protections are much weaker for civil cases though.
Some potential jurors will have seen these doctored photos. With the prosecution putting out obviously false info then it calls into question their credibility and any other evidence presented at trial.
Winterkorn has spent the past decade getting various postponements in his trial. Now that he is approaching 80 it is unlikely he will suffer any serious punishment.