{"id":13687,"date":"2024-04-13T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=13687"},"modified":"2024-04-12T08:08:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T14:08:01","slug":"i-had-them-deleted-he-told-the-jury-but-when-i-went-through-the-archive-it-was-able-to-pull-up-every-message-that-ive-ever-had","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=13687","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI had them deleted,\u201d he told the jury, \u201cbut when I went through the archive, it was able to pull up every message that I\u2019ve ever had.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fairfaxtimes.com\/articles\/fairfax_county\/day-16-lawyers-dig-up-alleged-fb-messages-that-portray-kate-as-aggressor\/article_01bc9a60-f81d-11ee-b4e1-2b89631af35b.html\">Asra Nomani<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soon after, this past November, lawyers for Fairfax County Public Schools filed a motion, alleging that Kate had committed a \u201cfraud on the court,\u201d an allegation that U.S. District Court Judge Rossie Alston rejected in late January, ruling that the school system \u201coverreached\u201d in attempting to dismiss the case. Alston noted that the Facebook messages hadn\u2019t been authenticated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed, after Chris testified, a Facebook official told the Fairfax County Times, \u201cYou can\u2019t see deleted messages or conversations. Deleting a message permanently removes it from your Chat list.\u201d The Facebook official added that \u201cFacebook User\u201d means an account has been \u201cdeactivated or deleted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dueling \u2013 and deeply contradictory \u2013 narratives underscore the complexity of cases of alleged sexual assault and coverup, but the new information from Facebook raises serious questions about the veracity of Chris\u2019s statements and the efforts by Fairfax County officials to flip the narrative on Kate and frame the alleged victim as the alleged \u201caggressor.\u201d The Fairfax County Times attempted to purchase a court transcript of the heated testimony. However, in an unusual move by the court, a court reporter said, \u201cBy agreement between the parties and the Court, transcripts will not be released at this time. Thanks.\u201d The school district\u2019s lawyers have attempted to raise issues with the judge about routine reporting the Fairfax County Times has done while covering the trial. On Wednesday, the Fairfax County Times submitted a request under the Freedom of Information Act to identify the official representing the school district on the Zoom call with Chris. When someone communicates with a third party, it removes legal privilege.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asra Nomani Soon after, this past November, lawyers for Fairfax County Public Schools filed a motion, alleging that Kate had committed a \u201cfraud on the court,\u201d an allegation that U.S. District Court Judge Rossie Alston rejected in late January, ruling that the school system \u201coverreached\u201d in attempting to dismiss the case. Alston noted that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13687"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13688,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13687\/revisions\/13688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}