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Originally Posted by Graham
Straw man.
I'm not trying to prove anything. You are the one who is asserting that it has been proven that she wrote most of her final judgement before the trial.
Graham
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No, it's not a straw man, it's a simple question. If the answer is that your mind is made up and there is no evidence that will convince you, then there isn't much point to continuing the conversation. All I can say is that I find the evidence is inline with my conclusion. If you don't think so, that's fine.
Actually, you very much are trying to prove something. You are rather obviously trying to prove that I am wrong. you said
"Do you really think that Judge Cote, given the task of reviewing all the mountains of evidence submitted for the pretrial, and given the task of presenting a preliminary opinion at the request of Apple and the DOJ, should have done this without writing anything down? "
which appears to be implying that draft was simply her writing notes. If she had actually been using the word draft in that context, then she would be guilt of very sloppy wording in her opinion, something I don't think anyone has accused her of. You also say "even if she did write a draft, that doesn't prove that it was the final opinion". Perhaps, but the fact that most of the opinion doesn't address the evidence from the trial is quite suggestive.
As I said, you seem to have a much, much higher standard of proof than Judge Cote. You seem to want a video clip of Judge Cote coming out and saying "Yes, I wrote most of the opinion before the trial" and anything else is waved away.