Great idea! Use WP in the courtroom!

Because no one else is doing it--not even the media.
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Great idea! Use WP in the courtroom!

Post by ericbarbour » Sun Jul 23, 2017 10:39 pm

Sure! Why not!!!
http://nypost.com/2017/07/18/lawyer-all ... ty-inmate/
https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/20 ... wikipedia/

What's more egregious is the possibility that Estelle may have relied on Wikipedia to file Preyor's federal appeal. The latest motion, filed on July 14, states within Estelle's files was "a copy of the Wikipedia page" titled "Capital punishment in Texas" on the printout with a Post-It note reading "Research" next to highlighted passages of "Habeas corpus appeals" and "Subsequent or successive writ applications."

Just another item to make one wonder: how many people lost their lives thanks to bad Wikipedia content. We will probably never know--but there is bound to be at least one. And there may be others in the near future.

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Re: Great idea! Use WP in the courtroom!

Post by Flip Flopped » Mon Jul 24, 2017 4:50 am

Perfect way to demonstrate what an incompetent defense attorney you had.

I read somewhere that judges are starting to use WP as well.

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Re: Great idea! Use WP in the courtroom!

Post by Strelnikov » Sat Jul 29, 2017 1:51 am

Article on it in The Texas Tribune: https://www.texastribune.org/2017/07/27 ... in-preyor/

This is just mind-boggling....

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After more than 12 years on death row, a San Antonio man convicted in a fatal stabbing was executed Thursday night. It was Texas’ fifth execution of the year.

TaiChin Preyor, 46, had filed a flurry of appeals in the weeks leading up to his execution date, claiming his trial lawyer never looked into evidence of an abusive childhood and his previous appellate counsel — a disbarred attorney paired with a real estate and probate lawyer who relied on Wikipedia in her legal research — committed fraud on the court.
Still "Globally Banned" on Wikipedia for the high crime of journalism.

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Re: Great idea! Use WP in the courtroom!

Post by ericbarbour » Sat Aug 05, 2017 8:26 am

Meanwhile, this was barely noticed

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/justi ... le/2629861

"The cyber age has tremendous potential, as indicated with Wikipedia," Kennedy said. "But if it bypasses space and time where there's just this obsession with the present – this neglect of our heritage and history – then our world will change."

Kennedy also said, "Journalists have to begin to understand we are in a new world" as a result of the changes wrought by the 'cyber age.' "


I would not call that "praise".

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