Amerika Serikat v. Salyer, Cr. Dalam. S-10-0061 LKK [GGH], 2011 WL 1466887 (DAN. Cal. April. 18, 2011)

“Unlike the usual discovery dispute—not enough produced—the dispute between the parties [dalam hal ini] involves too much produced, in too many formats, and whether the defense has been given a fair opportunity within the parameters of an adversary system of criminal justice to make use of that discovery.”

Defendant Salyer, “the one-time head of a large food processing company” was charged with racketeering, falsification of records and antitrust violations.  The discovery in the case was immense: “It is probably no exaggeration to state that 1-2 terabytes of information are involved.”  The evidence in the case had been amassed from a number of sources and existed in a wide variety of formats, termasuk dokumen-dokumen yang OCR'd, dipindai dan diproduksi di. pdf; dokumen elektronik yang dihasilkan dalam file teks yang dapat dicari; kertas catatan; gambar forensik dari database perusahaan; dan gambar forensik komputer disita dari perusahaan yang relevan (dicari hanya dengan software khusus).Menyadari potensi kesulitan yang mungkin timbul, pengadilan ditugaskan untuk memberikan saran tentang dampak dari penemuan pada jadwal sidang.

Selain volume tipis penemuan dikumpulkan dari berbagai sumber (dan diproduksi dalam banyak format), beberapa "isu-isu masalah /" telah diidentifikasi yang "rumit cepat pra-sidang meninjau sejumlah besar informasi" termasuk pembela tidak memiliki sumber daya untuk melakukan peninjauan skala besar; that defense counsel was likely to have been “behind the technological knowledge curve when it comes to preparing an electronically based mega-case”; that defendant was the “sum total of the defense ‘corporate knowledge’” and as such needed to be substantially involved in the review of discovery (made more difficult by the need for defendant to acquire permission to travel to participate in that review and his need to return to his home by a set time each day); and the “inability to agree on the precise issues in dispute and the documents needed” a problem described by the court as related to defendant’s intent to present a broad defense “created out of alleged business custom and practice” rather than responding to the indictment allegations “head on.”

melalui Penurunan Pengadilan untuk Paksa Pemerintah untuk Kontribusi Penciptaan Database untuk Kemudahan Beban Penemuan Terdakwa, Merekomendasikan Aplikasi untuk Bantuan Sesuai dengan Undang-Undang Peradilan Pidana : Elektronik Discovery Hukum.