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by dragmorp_ 5443 days ago
This was a major mistake by the witness in this case, and everyone who has been watching the case already knew about it. Do you know why?

Because it was presented to the jury during the trial.

The jury was told that the number of visits to that site was transposed with the number of visits to myspace. A prosecution witness cleared the record in open trial.

In fact, defense attorney Jose Baez even brought up the fact during closing arguments and used it as a reason to have reasonable doubt of the entire case.

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No, it's not (or shouldn't be) news to those of us who watched that part of the trial. But I bet there are a lot of people whose main information sources were cable TV talking heads who may have failed to point out this correction.