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Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. @annepmitchell.bsky.social · 15h

For example, let’s say you are representing the plaintiff, Patty, in a hit and run of Patty’s parked car that happened on January 5th in front of Patty’s house, and you are trying to prove that Dave, the defendant, did it.

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Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. @annepmitchell.bsky.social · 15h

If you get *too* specific, you might miss the thing you’re looking for because it was outside the scope of what you requested; but if you are too general or broad the other side can actually object to the request being overbroad.

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Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. @annepmitchell.bsky.social · 15h

The thing is, you have to already know what sort of things you are looking for, and then you have to craft the requests in such a way that the other side can’t wriggle out of producing them by saying that “this thing doesn’t *quite* match your request, so we didn’t have to produce it.”

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Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. @annepmitchell.bsky.social · 15h

And while I said “request”, it’s really more of a demand, a demand that has the force of law. If the other side has the thing for which you are asking, they have to give it up to you.

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Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. @annepmitchell.bsky.social · 15h

...because discovery gives you a view into the issues from the inside rather than just peering in like the little match girl.

Put as simply as possible, discovery is when one side gets to request of the other that they produce bits of what most of you would call ‘evidence’.

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Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. @annepmitchell.bsky.social · 15h

So I thought that the filing of the State of Oregon’s first discovery requests might be interesting to those of you interested in the inner workings of the law, and interesting for all of you even if you aren’t interested in how the law works...

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Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. @annepmitchell.bsky.social · 15h

THE FIRST SETS OF DISCOVERY REQUESTS IN THE OREGON CASE ARE IN! LEARN A LITTLE LAW WITH ME!

A lot of you have expressed appreciation for (dare I even hope perhaps delighting in?) the legal education that you are picking up along the way with me.

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Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. @annepmitchell.bsky.social · 16h

Another example is that “Clinton” appears in the full pdf 73 times - that is *not* including the several other times the name Clinton is in the 4-plex pages.

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I Just Uncovered an ENORMOUS Trove of Epstein Documents (943 Pages!), Many that Most People Haven't Seen Before!

Wow! I just hit a motherlode of Epstein documents! 943 pages! They include email logs, email from Maxwell to her attorneys (not sure why they didn’t argue attorney client-privilege there), very des...

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Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. @annepmitchell.bsky.social · 16h

For example if you search the pdf for “Buckingham Palace” you will get only one hit, referencing the title of a news article, but in the 4-plex pages you will find at least one other reference to the exact same term, so searching the pdf does *not* turn up matches in those 4-plex pages.

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Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. @annepmitchell.bsky.social · 16h

Much of this trove is searchable, but some of it isn’t; for example the pages that contain 4 miniaturized pages of a transcript per page (which I’ll call a “4-plex page”), those are not searchable but they contain a *lot* of interesting material.

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Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. @annepmitchell.bsky.social · 16h

They include email logs, email from Maxwell to her attorneys (not sure why they didn’t argue attorney client-privilege there), very descriptive and disturbing police incident reports (you have been warned), relevant snippets of transcripts, and much, much more.

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Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. @annepmitchell.bsky.social · 16h

I JUST UNCOVERED AN ENORMOUS TROVE OF EPSTEIN DOCUMENTS (943 PAGES!), MANY THAT MOST PEOPLE HAVEN'T SEEN BEFORE!

I just hit a motherlode of Epstein documents!

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Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. @annepmitchell.bsky.social · 22h

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Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. @annepmitchell.bsky.social · 22h

A reminder that this is not the first cycle of our country swinging from progressive to extremely conservative and even pro-facist our country has been through. We survived previous cycles, and we will survive this one. Professor Rachel Gunter is a PhD historian.

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Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. @annepmitchell.bsky.social · 1d

This is another crazy-long article, and it's late, so I'm going to give you the link to the full article on Substack *for free* (you just won't be able to access the source documents if you're not a Notes from the Front member):

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Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. @annepmitchell.bsky.social · 1d

And I have all of them for you plus an Amicus brief from the America First Foundation, filed in support of Trump, so you can see what their argument is.

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Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. @annepmitchell.bsky.social · 1d

Because the Constitutional Accountability Center has also filed a brief in support of the plaintiffs. And I have all of them for you plus an Amicus brief from the America First Foundation, filed in support of Trump, so you can see what their argument is.

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Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. @annepmitchell.bsky.social · 1d

Well, between then and now a collection of 39 towns, cities, and counties from all over the country, and an additional 63 local government officials (so 102 entities in all) have come together and submitted their own Amicus brief as well! But wait! There’s more!

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Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. @annepmitchell.bsky.social · 1d

... plus the District of Columbia, have already banded together and submitted an Amicus brief (remember that’s a “friend of the court” brief), AND that 26 former governors, from both parties, had banded together and filed another Amicus brief in support of Illinois and Chicago?

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Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. @annepmitchell.bsky.social · 1d

Remember yesterday, when I was telling you about the Court of Appeals upholding the District Court’s “no deploying the National Guard” TRO in the Illinois case, I mentioned that in researching the order I discovered that 23 states (20 states plus 3 through their governors’ offices),...

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Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. @annepmitchell.bsky.social · 1d

HERE ARE THE AWESOME 'FRIEND OF THE COURT BRIEFS' I PROMISED YOU IN THE ILLINOIS V. TRUMP CASE

One from 23 states, one from 26 former governors, plus three more briefs!

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Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. @annepmitchell.bsky.social · 3d

WEEKLY GOOD NEWS ROUNDUP - 10/11/25

Here’s a recap of the good things that have happened in the past week in our battle to defend our country from the ravages of the current administration:

Read on Substack for *free* (it's too long to post here):
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Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. @annepmitchell.bsky.social · 3d

Thomas Jefferson:
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Abraham Lincoln:
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An Authoritarian Dictator:
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Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. @annepmitchell.bsky.social · 3d

They are seriously stunningly good! (And a reminder: *never* trust anything serious to AI, all AIs get things notoriously, dangerously wrong.)

George Washington:
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John Adams:
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Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. @annepmitchell.bsky.social · 3d

SOME FUN WEEKEND READING!

This week I had some fun having ChatGPT write letters to Trump from Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Lincoln, and "an authoritarian dictator". I posted them on FB, and in case you missed any of them, here are the links to each.

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