Comment by pcthrowaway
6 days ago
> If you're on trial for doing X and your jury is told by a prosecution witness "mrkramer did X" and under cross they admit that's based on computer records which are often bogus, inconsistent, total nonsense, it doesn't take the world's best defence lawyer to secure an "innocent" verdict. That's not a fun experience, but it probably won't drive you to suicide.
I imagine digital records are involved in nearly every trial at this point. Good luck getting this point admitted by the justice system.
There are plenty of examples, Light Blue Touchpaper talks about this a bunch. You do have a problem that courts will believe technicians very broadly unless somebody competent is cross-examining to highlight where the limits of their evidence are. So your defence will need to hire such an expert and your legal team need to get the judge to understand why everybody is going to listen to nerd stuff for however long when they thought this was a case about, say, theft.