14 DAY TRIAL // It looks like Kim Dotcom’s love for Twitter may have hurt his efforts to get his hands on the evidence case file regarding his extradition to the United States.
The New Zealand Supreme Court decided last week that all Dotcom would be getting access to was a summary of the claims in the extradition case against him, TorrentFreak reports.
Days later, the Megaupload founder and his legal team returned to the court in relation to another case regarding a huge compensation claim against the New Zealand police and the secretive spy agency GCSB following the raid on Dotcom’s mansion in 2012.
Dotcom is asking for compensation as the authorities breached the Bill of Rights Act and the Government Communications and Security Bureau Act, on the base that the surveillance leading up to the raid was actually illegal and the police used excessive force during the raid, which wasn’t exactly necessary considering that Dotcom was an Internet mogul, not a Mafia leader.
The claim for compensation has reached the equivalent of $4.2 million.
During the same hearing today, Dotcom’s lawyer said that any additional documents in the possession of the government should be revealed to them. The Crown lawyer said there was nothing left to be handed over.
“The defendants at least have discovered thousands of documents in this proceeding and have been extraordinarily diligent in scouring records for relevant material,” the lawyer said.
He also took the time to take a jibe at Dotcom’s penchant for Twitter, where he usually shares his everyday thoughts and events from his life with all hisfollowers. He often tweets about himself, but also about the legal battles he faces.
The lawyer argued that through his posts on Twitter, Dotcom demonstrated “considerable disregard” for court processes and suggested that he would probably have posted on the social networking platform about any documents he might have obtained.
This isn’t the first time Dotcom’s love of Twitter is brought into attention and marked as a chink in his defense strategy.
The notion has been dismissed by Dotcom’s people on each occasion and the accusations have very little power, considering the fact that anyone could disseminate secret court documents or discuss them over Twitter.
In fact, ever since social networking has been around, this has been an increased possibility, while the idea that someone could reveal such documents to the media has been around for many, many years.
Regardless, Dotcom doesn’t seem too shaken up by the ruling as his tweets keep flowing.