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An adverse inference generally is a legal inference, adverse to the concerned party, made from a party’s silence or the absence of requested evidence. For example, as a sanction for spoliation of evidence, a court may instruct the jury it could draw an inference that the evidence contained in the destroyed documents would have been unfavorable.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

You are going to hear a lot more about this because of the IRS scandal.\u00a0 Some legal analysts have already addressed this issue.\u00a0 But so far, no one is addressing the obvious conclusion.\u00a0 The decision to destroy those IRS e-mails was made at a very high level. This cover-up involved multiple steps and multiple entities.\u00a0 Stupidity is an inadequate explanation. \u00a0Odds are high that legal counsel was involved in the decision.\u00a0 \u00a0That means the potential for an adverse inference instruction was probably addressed.\u00a0 Yet it is pretty obvious that obviously material e-mails were still deliberately destroyed.\u00a0 Or, more accurately, there was an all-out attempt to destroy those e-mails.\u00a0 It is still possible, if not probable, that someone will find a way to recover them.<\/p>\n

That leads to one conclusion.\u00a0 Someone, very high up on the food chain, made a decision that ANYTHING<\/strong> was better than releasing those e-mails.\u00a0 That means whatever is on those e-mails is more than bad.\u00a0 It is more than very bad.\u00a0 It is devastating.<\/p>\n

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