AT2k Design BBS Message Area
Casually read the BBS message area using an easy to use interface. Messages are categorized exactly like they are on the BBS. You may post new messages or reply to existing messages!

You are not logged in. Login here for full access privileges.

Previous Message | Next Message | Back to Slashdot  <--  <--- Return to Home Page
   Local Database  Slashdot   [94 / 113] RSS
 From   To   Subject   Date/Time 
Message   VRSS    All   How Gmail Server Evidence Led to a Jury Verdict of $23.2 Million   July 20, 2025
 1:40 PM  

Feed: Slashdot
Feed Link: https://slashdot.org/
---

Title: How Gmail Server Evidence Led to a Jury Verdict of $23.2 Million For
Wrongful Death

Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/07/20/15592...

Long-time Slashdot reader wattersa is a lawyer in Redwood City, California,
and a Slashdot reader since 1998. In 2022 he shared the remarkable story of a
three-year missing person investigation that was ultimately solved with a
subpoena to Google. A murder victim appeared to have sent an email at a time
which would exonate the chief suspect. But a closer inspection of that
email's IP addresses revealed it was actually sent from a hotel where the
suspect was staying. ("Although Google does not include the originating IP
address in the email headers, it turns out that they retain the IP address
for some unknown length of time...";) Today wattersa brings this update: The
case finally went to trial in July 2025, where I testified about the
investigation along with an expert witness on computer networking. The jury
took three hours to return a verdict against the victim's husband for
wrongful death in the amount of $23.2 million, with a special finding that he
caused the death of his wife. The defendant is a successful mechanical
engineer at an energy company, but is walking as a free man because he is
Canadian and no one can prosecute him in the U.S., since Taiwan and the U.S.
don't have extradition with each other. It was an interesting case and I look
forward to using it as a model in other missing person cases.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

---
VRSS v2.1.180528
  Show ANSI Codes | Hide BBCodes | Show Color Codes | Hide Encoding | Hide HTML Tags | Show Routing Message Info 
Previous Message | Next Message | Back to Slashdot  <--  <--- Return to Home Page

VADV-PHP
Execution Time: 0.0163 seconds

If you experience any problems with this website or need help, contact the webmaster.
VADV-PHP Copyright © 2002-2025 Steve Winn, Aspect Technologies. All Rights Reserved.
Virtual Advanced Copyright © 1995-1997 Roland De Graaf.
v2.1.250224