You are moving the goal posts now.<p>Fabrication of complaints and testimony is, of course, possible, but it&#x27;s not the same thing, nor is it in the same category of ease for a corrupt state official, as merely planting evidence.<p>The main benefit of prohibition, from the standpoint of the state, is that planting evidence against <i>anybody</i> is suddenly possible, and in fact in many communities the evidence is already planted.<p>In this particular case, we happen to have evidence of the former, but it is not evidence that fabrication of complaints and testimony, which require a far more elaborate corruption superstructure, are possible in this community.