[layer8]

That one bit seems unlikely though:

> the former chief apparently deleted more than 27,000 of those text messages by hand.

[therealdrag0]

Can you see what’s been deleted by hand or not?

[lesuorac]

No. Part of the reasoning provided by the judge as to why the sanctions were limited was that the plantif's own efforts could not determine which of the deletions by the defendants were manual or automatic.