Trailer Lawyer News, April 23: the ‘Snake Farm’ edition
A fair inference from the Kerri Rigsby testimony is that lawyers named Chip, Mary, Tony and Todd were in the trailer on March 11 — a fair inference, for that is what she said. Again, she could be mistaken, but since she was there and was the star of the show, her words carry some weight on this issue. Neither of the Rigsbys said Chip, Mary and Todd watched as the information was downloaded, although neither said this did not happen, either. It does appear, however, that a fair reading of the Cori Rigsby deposition is that Tony DeWitt read documents off her computer on March 11, 2006, and possibly also that he was in control of her computer as well, doing what exactly we do not know for sure. But we can say with some degree of assurance that he was not using the computer, for example, to get online and play chess against Shredder, because his purpose in being at the trailer had to have something to do with the False Claims Act case that was filed the next month.
Also, let’s just focus ever so briefly on the last Graves quote from the story’s excerpt:
“You’re not supposed to be able to go in court and just throw things up there,” Graves said.
“Maybe in the blog world you can, but that’s not how you’re supposed to plead cases.”
I don’t remember, in all the many stories that were done before about the “whistleblower” Rigsby sisters and this False Claims Act case, was there any peep from Graves or Robertson about how the publicity might unfairly affect the other side, or about how judges were too dumb to make up their own minds on the evidence? In the story, Robertson also says, apparently speaking of State, er, Snake Farm, “I know they’re trying to sell a story, but it would be useful if they’d try to get the facts before trying to influence improperly any judge who might be reading the Internet.”
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4/23/8
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