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Re:State Attorney fires IT director who raised concerns in T... by brk on Saturday July 13, 2013 @06:25PM (#6039033)
A perhaps bad analogy: what if this were DNA evidence? Does the defense and prosecution both need to do their own analysis of a sample? Or does the data found by the prosecution automatically get shared to the defense?
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Re:State Attorney fires IT director who raised concerns in T... by tantalor on Saturday July 13, 2013 @06:34PM (#6039056)
If the analysis is going to be submitted as evidence or testimony, then yes I believe they must share the results.
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Re:State Attorney fires IT director who raised concerns in T... by arh68 on Saturday July 13, 2013 @09:34PM (#6039523)
What if it's not going to be used as evidence by you, but maybe perhaps the defense? How would you know what could necessarily interest the defense? It seems a prosecutor could argue that they had no idea these images they saw would ever be considered evidence. Why bring them up? This just smells retaliatory, though.
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Re:State Attorney fires IT director who raised concerns in T... by tantalor on Saturday July 13, 2013 @10:54PM (#6039717)
They have to share that too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exculpatory_evidence

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