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Rosenthal Contempt Hearing Continues

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On the Houston Chronicle website, Brian Rogers reports, "Rosenthal takes stand, says he has little computer training."Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal took the stand this morning to defend the deletion of thousands of e-mails after they were subpoenaed in a federal civil rights case. Rosenthal said he's had minimal training with computers and often asks his secretary or his IT department to fix mistakes he makes with computers. He said he has never paid bills online, never made a chart or graph on the computer and the letters he writes are short. "I still don't know how to type," Rosenthal said. U.S. District Judge Kenneth Hoyt is holding the hearing to determine whether to hold Rosenthal in contempt for willfully disregarding a subpoena by destroying evidence...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 01, 2008 (boomark / email).