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Defense Uses Google Trends to Define Community Standards

Posted By: JonKelly 109 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Google Other

Defense lawyer in Florida uses Google trends to show that client was not violating "community standards." Pretty clever, we'll see if it works.

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from mvandemar 109 days ago #

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The prosecuter make a completely incorrect statement:

"How many times you do something doesn't necessarily speak to standards and values," he said.

Of course it does. That's exactly why if you endorse one set of values publicly but don't apply them to yourself it's "double standards".

I think that the defense attorney has a good shot with this one, if he's careful and doesn't let the prosecuter get away with statements like that.