Re:Google is testing expiring emails in the new Gmail
by landryraccoon on Friday April 13, 2018 @12:54PM
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You're really overestimating what happens in actual jury trials. When I served on a jury, a lawyer presented photographs of evidence as evidence. Like, I'm talking paper printouts of photos that were taken on a cell phone. Juries aren't full of engineers, as a general rule. If the average person on Reddit will see a screen shot of a text message and assume the conversation happened, why wouldn't an average juror? The only burden of proof is if a lawyer can convince the jury a conversation happened.
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Re:Google is testing expiring emails in the new Gmail
by mseebach on Friday April 13, 2018 @03:05PM
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The underlying mechanism there is generally that the other party doesn't contest that the printout is in fact of a picture from their phone, or that the screenshot from Reddit is in fact of something they wrote.
I'm not a trial lawyer, but I suspect that it's not a great defence strategy to deny basic matters of fact.
Re:Google is testing expiring emails in the new Gmail
by landryraccoon on Friday April 13, 2018 @03:31PM
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My understanding is that judges will lean towards admitting the evidence, and if the lawyers want to bring forth experts or witnesses to undermine the evidence they are welcome to. So a screenshot of a conversation might be admitted, and the opposing lawyer would have to argue or bring forth witnesses arguing that the screenshot was faked.