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


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 ...

In 2022 he shared the remarkable story of a three-year missing person investigation that was ultimately solved with a subpoena to Google. ("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 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.

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