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Zoom court hearing postponed after accused found in same location as witness

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Re: Zoom court hearing postponed after accused found in same location as witness

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There is a community around watching court cases at /r/zoomcourt Judge Middleton and Deborah Davis (the attorney) from this case are very popular over there. She is even a member of the subreddit IIRC.

My understanding is that only judges can share these recordings because it would be an ethical violation for the lawyers to do it, but I wonder, why isn't it an ethical issue for the Judge?

Re: Zoom court hearing postponed after accused found in same location as witness

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post #28

There is a community around watching court cases at /r/zoomcourt Judge Middleton and Deborah Davis (the attorney) from this case are very popular over there. She is even a member of the subreddit IIRC.

Why are the cases being streamed on the internet?

Re: Zoom court hearing postponed after accused found in same location as witness

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post #31
post #28

There is a community around watching court cases at /r/zoomcourt Judge Middleton and Deborah Davis (the attorney) from this case are very popular over there. She is even a member of the subreddit IIRC.

My understanding is that only judges can share these recordings because it would be an ethical violation for the lawyers to do it, but I wonder, why isn't it an ethical issue for the Judge?

It varies from court to court, but in general the judge has the responsibility of evaluating whether public interest outweighs rights to privacy for any given piece of recorded court information. I'd imagine it is an ethical issue, but the judge has the authority to evaluate the ethics and reach a decision.

Re: Zoom court hearing postponed after accused found in same location as witness

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post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It allows more people to go and attack her, and opens the door to much more violence in the future. Now instead of 1 predator knowing where she lives there are a million. Is that good? Transcripts should redact addresses and contact information.

Your thought process is wild. I honestly cannot see where you're coming from.

I am not sure if you are that sheltered. It is within the realm of possibility, it would be possible to believe that humankind are collected and knowing their boundaries. Until recently (last year or pre-pandemic) it become transparent that we are, in fact, stupid. The thought process is valid because it is possible for that to happen. This thought process will be very outlandish 10 years ago which I can agree with you. But now... it is not impossible to think it can happens.

Re: Zoom court hearing postponed after accused found in same location as witness

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post #28

There is a community around watching court cases at /r/zoomcourt Judge Middleton and Deborah Davis (the attorney) from this case are very popular over there. She is even a member of the subreddit IIRC.

Why are the cases being streamed on the internet?

Criminal court proceedings are normally open to public by default in many jurisdictions.

The idea being that law is applied in public to keep process in check, unless there are exceptional reasons not to do so.

Re: Zoom court hearing postponed after accused found in same location as witness

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I have seen this video before this HN post. There is a follow up video depicting our antagonist from a jail. He loses his temper and is put on mute. You can see from his body language how distressed he is. It disturbed me greatly. This young man appears to be able to go from 0 to 100 very quickly with little self control. I can only imagine the kind of environment that helps create a person like that… It is so sad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id6q1q-r-Sw

The compilation starts briefly from the later jail incident. The part depicted in the article (edited) starts at 0:34.

Re: Zoom court hearing postponed after accused found in same location as witness

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post #22
post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It allows more people to go and attack her, and opens the door to much more violence in the future. Now instead of 1 predator knowing where she lives there are a million. Is that good? Transcripts should redact addresses and contact information.

Your thought process is wild. I honestly cannot see where you're coming from.

Did you see where a GitHub project was forked, and the maintainer of the fork had people at his place of residence threatening physical violence? This shit sounds made up, but craycray is rampant on the internet.

Re: Zoom court hearing postponed after accused found in same location as witness

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I do not know if you know this, but back in the day, we used to publish entire doxxing books, listing everyone's address and home phone number. It was opt-out, and almost nobody did. Why are people today suddenly so worried about that?

Just because it happened in the past doesn't make it right. Lots of very grave things were done in history that we now know to be mistakes. Also, I always opted out in those days. I should still be able to do that today.

Yes, phone books are murder.

Re: Zoom court hearing postponed after accused found in same location as witness

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post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It allows more people to go and attack her, and opens the door to much more violence in the future. Now instead of 1 predator knowing where she lives there are a million. Is that good? Transcripts should redact addresses and contact information.

I do not know if you know this, but back in the day, we used to publish entire doxxing books, listing everyone's address and home phone number. It was opt-out, and almost nobody did. Why are people today suddenly so worried about that?

Those things were printed at most once per year. Lots of information can change in a year. Online data can be as close to realtime as it gets. There's a large chasm of difference in MaBell's book and the internet. MaBell also would charge you to be unlisted, but you could provided fake names/info that would be printed in the book instead.

Re: Zoom court hearing postponed after accused found in same location as witness

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> “Um, I’m at a house,” [NAME] said, with hesitation, giving a [STREET NAME] address in [CITY]. This should NOT have been publicized. There is enough information in the above sentence that I was able to Google for her exact address. This is a gross danger to violence victims.

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