[innocentfelon]

The government did modify the spreadsheet, and we alleged as much multiple times.

They didn’t even gave us one SQL query like that. All we got was a typo-ridden excel spreadsheet, with multiple authors, no chain of custody, no queries, and a random list of accounts that can hop state lines in minutes, and they told the courts that was how the information came out of the computer.

If that SQL query was what they actually produced, everything would be fine. We asked them for the queries they used, but they refused.

The quote is what they call “dicta”, or in passing. If you follow the cited opinions in this brief you will find them all totally inappropriate. They don’t say what the circuit judge says they say. It’s like the judge just had his clerk do it and didn’t check the work.

It won’t let me respond as fast as you all are attacking me, so you’ll have to bear with me.