Prosecutors to seek protective order for evidence in Malheur refuge conspiracy case
By Maxine Bernstein | The Oregonian/OregonLive
on March 06, 2016 at 10:59 AM
updated March 07, 2016 at 10:59 AM
Federal prosecutors estimate that evidence accumulated in the conspiracy case stemming from the armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge will exceed one terabyte of digital data and want the court to order defense attorneys not to share the material or make it public.
Defense lawyers are expected to challenge the request at a hearing Wednesday ...
A terabyte of data is about 1 trillion bytes or 1,000 gigabytes. For example, it could hold 1,000 copies of the Encyclopedia Britannica, according to the "What's a Byte'' website ...
U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown on Friday ... ordered that the defendants "shall not have unsupervised access'' to the material ...
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