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Comment by woodruffw

4 days ago

I thought the standard for obtaining adverse/negative inference in a criminal case was higher than in a civil one, i.e. a judge will typically need more than just evidence that information was destroyed. But IANAL!

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JumpCrisscross  4 days ago

Maybe you just get charged with destroying or tampering with evidence instead of the original charge? (Help us rayiner!)

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