Court rejects COPA’s ‘disingenuous’ document requests for Satoshi identity trial
The post Court rejects COPA’s ‘disingenuous’ document requests for Satoshi identity trial appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Dr. Craig Wright squared off in court against the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) in September over a number of applications made by both sides, ending with a ruling last week which saw the court slap down COPA’s most significant requests—including that they be allowed to rely on two expert reports on document authenticity served in earlier cases. Before Justice Mellor, Dr. Wright had asked the court to exclude certain hearsay evidence that COPA was seeking to use at trial. These were two reports: one produced in Kleiman v Wright from Dr Matthew Edman, and another produced in Granath v Wright by KPMG—in addition to an expert report already by Mr. Patrick Madden, arranged by COPA. Both reports examined a number of documents and emails that were submitted into evidence in those cases, and both concluded that some of the documents had been forged or otherwise altered. Both expert report did not express an opinion on who forged or altered the documents or why; Dr. Wright has consistently maintained that many of the documents in the record are forged or altered, often in ways designed to make Dr. Wright look bad. The court rejected the inclusion of both the Edman and the KPMG reports, remarking that “as Dr Wright submitted, the upshot of this is that COPA intends to rely at trial on expert evidence from no less than three experts in the same discipline” and that to allow COPA to do so would be “wholly duplicative.” “COPA submitted that there would be no unfairness to Dr Wright because his expert report would only need to address the documents considered by Mr Madden. I found this submission disingenuous. If the Edman and KPMG reports remained in evidence, Dr Wright’s expert and his legal team would have to consider them.” The…
The post Court rejects COPA’s ‘disingenuous’ document requests for Satoshi identity trial appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
Dr. Craig Wright squared off in court against the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) in September over a number of applications made by both sides, ending with a ruling last week which saw the court slap down COPA’s most significant requests—including that they be allowed to rely on two expert reports on document authenticity served in earlier cases. Before Justice Mellor, Dr. Wright had asked the court to exclude certain hearsay evidence that COPA was seeking to use at trial. These were two reports: one produced in Kleiman v Wright from Dr Matthew Edman, and another produced in Granath v Wright by KPMG—in addition to an expert report already by Mr. Patrick Madden, arranged by COPA. Both reports examined a number of documents and emails that were submitted into evidence in those cases, and both concluded that some of the documents had been forged or otherwise altered. Both expert report did not express an opinion on who forged or altered the documents or why; Dr. Wright has consistently maintained that many of the documents in the record are forged or altered, often in ways designed to make Dr. Wright look bad. The court rejected the inclusion of both the Edman and the KPMG reports, remarking that “as Dr Wright submitted, the upshot of this is that COPA intends to rely at trial on expert evidence from no less than three experts in the same discipline” and that to allow COPA to do so would be “wholly duplicative.” “COPA submitted that there would be no unfairness to Dr Wright because his expert report would only need to address the documents considered by Mr Madden. I found this submission disingenuous. If the Edman and KPMG reports remained in evidence, Dr Wright’s expert and his legal team would have to consider them.” The…
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