Termie,
Occam's Razor. More assumptions mean more BS.
1. Arrest a negro say 10th Dec
2. You have no evidence but you are determined to nail him so you detain him
3. Open a facebook account with near similar name as his
4. Post inflammatory messages
5. Torture or threaten him and basically FORCE him to confess to the fake posts
6. Pretend that you arrested him on 31st, twenty days after. Sentence him to two years for pleading guilty
How plausible is this?
Moi did it so why not?
Let me make my assumptions
1. Wadi posts inflammatory messages
2. Wadi is arrested
3. Wadi readily confesses
4. Wadi pleads guilty
5. Wadi gets 2 years
I don't see what you gain by pushing Obienga to admitting that the posts MAY have been faked. It remains a possibility no different from assuming they was not. So it is all about which assumptions are more sensible.
You are not too far from guessing that he was PAID by Ouru to insult him so that he could be arrested and sentenced to warn others. There were plans to release him immediately AFTER the sentencing and whisk him to Turkey to finish his degree from there. Bleep Warren Commission and his single-bullet theory
Unless I am mistaken, evidence is presented in court and you and I did not see it. What was posted here would serve as eyewitness statements by those who took the screenshots if they indeed were to testify. Indeed did the same account also post photos of the suspect, were those same photos found on the suspects mobile phone ? I'm sure that you are also aware that Facebook does not block accounts without an internal investigation. Many times, a Facebook account is linked to an email account and in the case of two factor authentication, a mobile phone number. Either way, this will be an interesting case to watch as it unfolds and is appealed. The State may decide not to contest on appeal, or perhaps it will. The worst thing an innocent person can do for themselves is plead guilty when they know that they are not (except for minor offences to save the pain of going through a lengthy trial).
I never really doubted the burden would be with the prosecution. The guilty plea. Under the circumstances. I have no reason to rule out duress.
In any case, I'd be hard pressed to put it better than MOON Ki. He has covered the legal angle well.
Admission of digital evidence does not mean accepting anything presented in digital format as true.
Already we are agreed it is laughably easy to create bogus Facebook accounts, phony content and use it as evidence. It does not pass muster on nipate, let alone a serious court.
twitter does a better job with duplicating account names. But it is far from immune from simple download of page and css, phony content, photoshop.
Digital evidence is fine. But it demands higher thresholds of authenticity than the joke I have seen presented with regards to Alan Wadi.
The jailing. The court affair. I am deferring to MOON Ki's analysis. If you come up with something more inspired. I'll happily shift my opinion accordingly.
I am fascinated by the links of images you shared here. I am assuming you believe they are true. What is your basis? How will the person who took the screenshots prove they are not phony?
Can you prove that the images you have shared about "Alan Wadi" represent anything done by Alan Wadi? Is it very trivial to come up with those links you share? Would it take something more concrete than innuendo to convince a reasonable person?
Alan Wadi's photos are on the web. Anybody can download them. Create a phony account. Phony content. Will facebook stop them? I could even use it for my avatar. Or put it on my mobile phone. Create decorative toilet paper with it.
If I were you I would try it if in doubt, if you haven't already. A child with dyslexia could easily create an account of Lieutenant kissing the ground that kamwana walks on.
Alternatively one can just download the page, replace content with phony content and photo-shop.
If one does not see something more convincing, would they be crazy to dismiss the links you readily shared here as nothing more than jubilee propaganda?