Rambus Destroyed Evidence In Anti-trust Trial

Marasmus writes "CNN is reporting that memory-chip maker Rambus has been found guilty of destroying evidence which was 'critical' to the anti-trust case brought by the U.S. government. Interestingly, the Judge has denied the FTC's request to move on to the penalty phase of the trial. Destruction of evidence in an anti-trust case normally yields a forfeiture of trial, but Rambus 'will have the burden of proving its innocence" instead.'

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Not much to the article...

[$$$$$exyGal]

Rambus has maintained that its document destruction was part of the company's regular document retention policy.

Some people say they illegally destroyed the documents, and Rambus said they legally destroyed the documents. Other than that, the article is useless.

Re:What's The Big Deal

[Anonymous Coward]

How does someone read the news for nerds web site and not know who Rambus is??

http://www.google.com/search?q=rambus

Re:Retention policies are determined by companies

[radish]

That depends on the type of business you are involved in. I know we are legally obliged to keep (for instance) email logs for a number of years. Likewise tapes recorded from certain phonelines, and of course paper records of transactions etc. In the financial sector, the rules (and penalties for breaking them) have recently become a lot tougher!

Re:Why not penalty phase?

[wjp296]

I'm not an expert on the law, but I beleive that trials such as this are often allowed to continue so that there is less grounds for an appeal after the verdict. Have to let them have their day in court, after all.

Re:How to read that pretty graph

[pizzaman100]

Here's a nice linear graph of the Rambus stock price.