I genuinely don’t understand what a technicality is, and I really want to know.
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The law is complex, and it’s worse because it’s written and interpreted by humans, so it has mistakes and there are often cases when what is written down doesn’t exactly match what the writers actually meant, or have been changed because our understand of how things work have changed with time.
When someone gets off because of a “technicality”, it means that the people doing the arrest made some procedural mistake in following the laws required, with the general implication that the person that was arrested is actually guilt and there is a problem with the laws which allow this injustice.
However, in most cases those laws exist to prevent the abuse of power by the police or members of the justice system. Failing to read someone their rights or collecting evidences when they are not allowed to are generally what the technicalities turn out to be.
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