Ya it's a bit of a meta-justice system, throwing out the case doesn't seem like an ideal outcome but it punishes the prosecutors for being sloppy. Sends the message, If you want to send someone to jail for 20 years, don't be sloppy.
That will only work if they prosecute the detectives for falsifying information on a warrant application, which they won't. The really scary part is how many innocent people could have been jailed because of sloppiness that wasn't caught.
I don't think police really care what happens after the arrest most of the time, unless it was someone they feel wronged them. I could be wrong.
Point being, letting the guy get off, the police will just blame the lawyers and not themselves a lot of the time.
You always hear, "they got off on a technicality," which means the police were sloppy and didn't do their job the right (constitutional) way, but it infers someone did something wrong in the courtroom and not the police.
I think it’s more precise to say that the temporary judge ruled that this can’t go to trial when the police admit they used Clearview services. Would a human viewing the footage been more convincing to a retired judge?
The case isn’t thrown out. The evidence obtained through an illegally obtained warrant is suppressed. They can still gather and use any other evidence to prove his guilt.
