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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Notes yes, Draft opinion no. You seem to be interpreting what she said is simply a series of notes about the evidence, while I'm interpreting what she said as she actually wrote a draft opinion.
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You're the one who said I was interpreting it as a series of notes.
I haven't interpreted it as any particular level of detail, as
it's impossible to work that out from the comments as recorded.
What I'm interpreting the phrase 'draft opinion' to mean is... 'draft opinion'.
i.e. she wrote out her preliminary opinion on the evidence presented for the pretrial in draft form.
It's entirely possible that some or even a lot of that draft text made it into the final judgement, and I have agreed that it's perfectly possible that the first 112 pages of the final document - but not the accompanying footnotes - could have been written in advance as it covers the events leading up to the trial and the prior cases that have relevance.
Entirely possible. But nothing we've seen
proves that it was.
Your contention was that it was a
fact that she had written the majority in advance, and you've mentioned this repeatedly to support the idea that Judge Cote was biased during the main trial.
Even if draft text made it to the final document, all that means is that Judge Cote felt that it was appropriate for that text to be there in the final judgement.
Graham