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Wanted to say that if anything i wrote here is used against me, I would be totally surprised and would not care if I lost the lawsuit because of it. I would give credit to the defense attorney for using what I wrote here against me for a number of reasons.
1) Many facts are very different and I admitted to nothing. But the facts are somewhat similar to get my questions across, but extremely different at the same time.
2) Lawyers all seem to be very busy and they can't even spend 5 minutes on my case, if the defense lawyer would actually find this post and spend the time even looking for it, it would surprise me.
3) This is an anonymous post, could be anyone writing this. Could be the the defense guy who caused me the accident writing all this stuff up. If anyone knows anything about what evidence is used in trial, they are very specific and hearsay and stuff like that can't be used. How could they use anything here which is so different then the actual events, and written with no information to who I am or what exactly happened.
If stuff in this post could be used as evidence I would be shocked. I can just imagine the defense lawyer bringing this up. Well we found some internet post which is completely anonymous, but it may be someone writing about this case, he really didn't admit to anything and kept changing facts around. There is no way this could happen.
4) The defense lawyer would have to subpoena the owner of this site. I don't even know if that is possible in a civil trial, maybe a murder trial, but I doubt a civil lawyer could request stuff like this and the site owner would not get involved unless it was the police.
Even if they got internet records, it can't really be traced back to me anyway. They would have to go to my ISP to get the exact location, but only way they can do that is with a search warrant. I don't think a defense lawyer can get that information on a civil trial.
5) Even if they got all the information here and got the ISP traced back to my house, I would just say it was my stupid family member who did that to annoy me and there would still be no evidence I wrote that, so it would not be admissible in court.
6)Everything I wrote here doesn't have me admitting to anything, just hypothetical based on what the defense is going to say. I never said I was driving reckless, only that he is going to say that to cover his ass. So that is why I have asked if the defense wants to make his case that I was driving reckless, if they can request past video evidence.
You see, everything here was written so that I never admitted to anything, just asking questions.
None of this could be used in court because it doesn't say anything.
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Most of the social media stuff that you hear about being used against you in court is stuff people wrote on their facebook pages and stuff like that. Easily traceable back to you and clearly shows your name and identity and picture. Stuff on anonymous forums like this would never be used unless you put in personal information, which can be traced directly back to you.
They can also use stuff like if I texted or instant messaged the defendant, stuff like that can be used because it is easily leads back to me.
That being all said and if I found out I was wrong and they actually used some of this stuff here, I would give so many props to the defendants lawyer that I wouldn't care if I lost the case at that point. I would feel they beat me fair and square and tell everyone about how great the defense lawyer was to use this against me.
I would also write a book about how stupid things you write online can be used against you.
Not saying you guys are wrong about keeping your mouth shut, you may be very right. Other stuff I have posted on the internet may be used against me but that is much more relevant stuff. More like if you guys here got in trouble and were trying to say you didn't have a dash cam and never owned one, and they found you posting here pictures of your dash cam and car with it. That is what they could use against you. But what I wrote here, no way.
When this case is all finished, I will surely post the video and tell you all the real details. It was this accident when I realized I needed dash cams on all my cars.
1) Many facts are very different and I admitted to nothing. But the facts are somewhat similar to get my questions across, but extremely different at the same time.
2) Lawyers all seem to be very busy and they can't even spend 5 minutes on my case, if the defense lawyer would actually find this post and spend the time even looking for it, it would surprise me.
3) This is an anonymous post, could be anyone writing this. Could be the the defense guy who caused me the accident writing all this stuff up. If anyone knows anything about what evidence is used in trial, they are very specific and hearsay and stuff like that can't be used. How could they use anything here which is so different then the actual events, and written with no information to who I am or what exactly happened.
If stuff in this post could be used as evidence I would be shocked. I can just imagine the defense lawyer bringing this up. Well we found some internet post which is completely anonymous, but it may be someone writing about this case, he really didn't admit to anything and kept changing facts around. There is no way this could happen.
4) The defense lawyer would have to subpoena the owner of this site. I don't even know if that is possible in a civil trial, maybe a murder trial, but I doubt a civil lawyer could request stuff like this and the site owner would not get involved unless it was the police.
Even if they got internet records, it can't really be traced back to me anyway. They would have to go to my ISP to get the exact location, but only way they can do that is with a search warrant. I don't think a defense lawyer can get that information on a civil trial.
5) Even if they got all the information here and got the ISP traced back to my house, I would just say it was my stupid family member who did that to annoy me and there would still be no evidence I wrote that, so it would not be admissible in court.
6)Everything I wrote here doesn't have me admitting to anything, just hypothetical based on what the defense is going to say. I never said I was driving reckless, only that he is going to say that to cover his ass. So that is why I have asked if the defense wants to make his case that I was driving reckless, if they can request past video evidence.
You see, everything here was written so that I never admitted to anything, just asking questions.
None of this could be used in court because it doesn't say anything.
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Most of the social media stuff that you hear about being used against you in court is stuff people wrote on their facebook pages and stuff like that. Easily traceable back to you and clearly shows your name and identity and picture. Stuff on anonymous forums like this would never be used unless you put in personal information, which can be traced directly back to you.
They can also use stuff like if I texted or instant messaged the defendant, stuff like that can be used because it is easily leads back to me.
That being all said and if I found out I was wrong and they actually used some of this stuff here, I would give so many props to the defendants lawyer that I wouldn't care if I lost the case at that point. I would feel they beat me fair and square and tell everyone about how great the defense lawyer was to use this against me.
I would also write a book about how stupid things you write online can be used against you.
Not saying you guys are wrong about keeping your mouth shut, you may be very right. Other stuff I have posted on the internet may be used against me but that is much more relevant stuff. More like if you guys here got in trouble and were trying to say you didn't have a dash cam and never owned one, and they found you posting here pictures of your dash cam and car with it. That is what they could use against you. But what I wrote here, no way.
When this case is all finished, I will surely post the video and tell you all the real details. It was this accident when I realized I needed dash cams on all my cars.