Spoliation cites

[Jim Choate]

On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Harmon Seaver wrote:

>      Frankly, even I couldn't be *really, really* sure I had given them "all
> copies" -- I've got zipped files floating around all over the place, on backup
> tapes, stored on various machines, servers around the net, floppies in boxes I'll
> find years later, etc.

And if the court doesn't believe you, issues a order directing the
confiscation and search by LEA's of that material and they find something
on those archives you're goose just got cooked. Those will be years later
in jail. The courts generaly expect you to expend whatever resources you
need providing the materials they request.


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