Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series.
Leonard Deutchman
In last week’s article, I discussed the Pennsylvania Superior Court’s opinion in Commonwealth v. Ayyakkannu Manivannan, 2018 PA Super. 112 (May 4, 2018), and how it illustrates that the legal issue underlying it is basic and simple. This trend of opinions involving simple legal rules made complex, if at all, by the discussion of how such rules apply to digital technology, suggests that legal minds understand enough about digital technology and how it fits into rules of evidence and other legal principals that we no longer have to start from the very beginning, legally or technically, when digital technology gives rise to legal issues.
