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You're overthinking it. It's a pro forma activity that takes all of 30 seconds, and doing it now means they can close the case file sooner rather than later.
by rprasad 14y ago
You're overthinking it.
It's a pro forma activity that takes all of 30 seconds, and doing it now means they can close the case file sooner rather than later.
- rhizome 14y agoIt's easy enough to check, has every other case against someone who died been dropped already? Does the DoJ have an API?
- rprasad 14y agoIt's not easy to check: PACER does not provide that sort of functionality and the courts have not bothered to record death of defendant as a data field. You're welcome to attempt this project by hand; it will probably take you the rest of your natural life. PACER was designed and implemented in the days when AOL and Compuserve were the Internet. It doesn't have an API.