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- July 29th
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Presenting Real Evidence Captured in the Digital World – Law.com
[FOOTNOTE 12] And the rights of criminal defendants relying on or challenging digitally reconstituted evidence will likely raise many of the issues already encountered in the handling of electronic evidence today. [FOOTNOTE 13] Revolutions in forensic …
posted at 3:00am on Jul 29th
- July 22nd
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Casey Anthony Trial – A Call for Validation Testing
While moderating CLE sessions at the Carmel Valley eDiscovery Retreat this week, I received multiple emails from clients and contemporaries drawing my attention to the breaking scandal around the erroneous web cache forensic reports in the Casey Anthony trial. As it happens, one of my sessions with Herb Roitblat and Jason Velasco was “Validation Testing – Defending Your eDiscovery Process”. I have not been able to get a more detailed analysis of the exact issue with the CacheBack software used by John Bradley (the designer) as yet. The primary problem was that his initial analysis showed that someone on the Anthony residence computer had run searches for “Chloroform” 84 times when it was later determined that this had happened only one time. This is a good example of how even the best intentioned and experienced user can come up with erroneous results in unusual or unanticipated circumstances.
posted at 10:10am on Jul 22nd
- June 7th
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The Role of Technology in eCourts
No matter what you’re doing or what you need to have done, you cannot expect to get far without using the relevant technology to speed up the process. Why do you think local libraries have had to evolve to avoid becoming obsolete? Hardly an…
posted at 8:07am on Jun 7th
- May 6th
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Murder Conviction Reversed: MySpace Authentication Issue
The Maryland Court of Appeals has reversed and remanded for a new trial the defendant’s murder conviction for failing to properly authenticate MySpace pages. In a lengthy opinion, the court found the trial judge abused his discretion in attempting to authenticate the social networking site’s web pages of defendant’s girlfriend through the lead investigator’s testimony only. On the girlfriend’s web page it stated, “FREE BOOZY!!!! JUST REMEMBER SNITCHES GET STITCHES!! U KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!” The defendant argued . . . (read more) Image: clipart.com
posted at 7:27am on May 6th
- March 17th
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The Once and Future Lawyer – A St. Patrick’s Day Story
According to Wikipedia, a seanchaí is a traditional Irish storyteller/historian. A commonly encountered English spelling of the Irish word is shanachie. All lawyers need to be able to tell stories to convey facts and explain concepts. They do this for judges, to juries and occasionally among clients. For such a task, there’s no better preparation than kissing the Blarney Stone.
posted at 4:50pm on Mar 17th
- March 10th
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The Digital Courtroom: Apparently Not a Pipe Dream
We live in the age of ulcer-inducing, never-ending budget cuts. It’s surprising, though, when the chopping block can help the government achieve some progress, instead of just slicing its legs off. And what do you know? We happen to have recent news of that sort from the New York Unified Court System. Last week, Chief…
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Tags: Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, David Emerson, David T. Emerson, E-Filing, Electronic Filing, Jonathan Lippman, Judge David Emerson, Legal Technology, New York, New York State, State Courts, State Judges, Technology, Trials
posted at 5:07pm on Mar 10th
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U.S. v. WILSON – Leagle.com
U.S. v. WILSONLeagle.comThis Court has available a digital and video electronic evidence presentation system. Before commencement of pretrial discovery, the parties are ordered to familiarize themselves with the system, and to meet and confer about whe…
posted at 6:29am on Mar 10th
- March 9th
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New Rules: Social Media and Electronic Evidence – E-Commerce Times
Not many mediators and arbitrators have significant skills with ESI. Recently, Allison Skinner (a full-time mediator who also teaches eDiscovery at the University of Alabama School of Law as an adjunct professor) created an approach for using the media…
posted at 11:10am on Mar 9th
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Jury Selection iPad Apps Take Voir Dire to a New Level
2010 was a big year for the iPad, and we found that it wasn’t just for play. More and more attorneys are using the iPad at their office as well as in court. With the launch of the iPad 2…
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posted at 8:46am on Mar 9th
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Making Your Case With Social Media in Litigation
“The internet’s not written in pencil, Mark. It’s written in ink.”In “The Social Network” — admittedly a fictionalized account of the founding of Facebook — this was a hard lesson for founder Mark Zuckerberg to learn.And so it is with litigants and t…
posted at 7:24am on Mar 9th