Law Technology

Beatty wants text message evidence suppressed

By Michael Arkfeld

Beatty wants text message evidence suppressed. "The first battle has begun in the war Christine Beatty's lawyers are expected to wage against admissibility of the infamous text messages as evidence in the Jan. 5 criminal trial of Kwame Kilpatrick's former chief of staff.

Motions added this week to the files at Wayne Circuit Court claim Prosecutor Kym Worthy may have illegally obtained copies of 625,000 messages exchanged over a five-year period between Beatty, former Mayor Kilpatrick and others using city-owned text pagers.

The motion demands that the text messages cannot be used as evidence at a trial and the judge should order all of them suppressed. . . . "

Full post as published by Electronic Discovery & Evidence on September 24, 2008 (boomark / email).