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Murder suspect paid $120,000 to his lawyer who relied on Google during trial

Murder suspect paid $120,000 to his lawyer who relied on Google during trial

The judge’s decision was stunning, but so were the allegations. After the 2014 murder trial of a New York man accused of killing his wife, the judge wrote that the defendant’s lawyer was so unprepared and inexperienced that he relied on Google for help with forensics and pulled questions directly from an Australian web page, “DNA for Defence Lawyers.”        On Oct. 6, 2022, the judge overturned the conviction of Ganesh Ramsaran, 48, and ordered a new trial, citing the defense… Source link

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Google to face US antitrust trial over digital ads in September

Google to face US antitrust trial over digital ads in September

By Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. federal judge on Monday set a Sept. 9, 2024, date for the start of a jury trial in a lawsuit the U.S. Justice Department and a coalition of states filed last year against Google that accused the company of abusing its dominance of digital advertising technology. The lawsuit, filed in January 2023, accuses Google of monopolizing the market for digital advertising and undermining competition. The government has said Google should be forced to sell… Source link

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Trump ‘believes’ he’ll be convicted of overturning 2020 US election in trial this year

Trump ‘believes’ he’ll be convicted of overturning 2020 US election in trial this year

Donald Trump reportedly believes he will be convicted of attempting to overturn the result of the 2020 election in a trial later this year. The former president expects a jury in Washington DC will find him guilty of conspiring to “defraud the American people” on four charges that carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, Axios reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources. Such a verdict could throw his reelection campaign into disarray. The trial was scheduled to begin on March 4 and… Source link

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Google just settled its multi-billion dollar AI tech patent trial

Google just settled its multi-billion dollar AI tech patent trial

The hardware and software development company Singular Computing has received an undisclosed amount from Google in a settlement out of federal court in Massachusetts, bringing to an end the five-year long civil case brought by Singular’s founder Dr. Joseph Bates against the tech giant for patent infringement (PDF, hosted by The Register). Said infringement pertains to computer architectures facilitating artificial intelligence (AI) tool development and the training of large language models… Source link

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Judge blocks Trump lawyers from arguing about columnist’s rape claim at upcoming defamation trial

Judge blocks Trump lawyers from arguing about columnist’s rape claim at upcoming defamation trial

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge late Saturday said former President Donald Trump’s lawyers can’t present legal arguments to a jury assessing damages at a defamation trial on a jury’s conclusion last year that he didn’t rape a columnist in the mid-1990s. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan made the determination in an order in advance of a Jan. 16 trial to determine defamation damages against Trump after a jury concluded Trump sexually abused columnist E. Jean Carroll but did not find evidence… Source link

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