• NounsAndWords@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    “I am going to get to the bottom of who is responsible,” he said, adding he would pursue these issues “on my own, outside of this trial.”

    I was a bit confused how a Judge would just decide to start investigating some additional matter that is not formally before them to decide.

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      2 years ago

      How do judges normally treat destruction of evidence? Do they not care who committed the crime and just make a ruling on how to infer it? I feel like the court would want to know who has committed something as serious as this but I’m not sure of the actual process for it.

    • circuscritic@lemmy.ca
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      2 years ago

      All bark, no bite on the hand that will feed him after he leaves the bench (Big Capital/Big Law). See:

      "And yet, the judge decided today that he would not issue a “mandatory inference instruction” — one that would tell the jury they should proceed with the understanding that Google destroyed evidence that could have been detrimental to its case.”