Reply #1: Hot news for DU'ers interested in the latest on Uribe's "Magic Laptop" crappola:

[Judi Lynn]

Supreme Court dismisses Reyes files as evidence
Wednesday, 18 May 2011 22:36
Adriaan Alsema

Documents found on computers of slain FARC commander "Raul Reyes" are inadmissible as evidence in court as the material is illegally obtained and provides no evidence, Colombia's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

The court said so in the case against former socialist congressman Wilson Borja, who had been charged of collaborating with the FARC based on material found on the computers retreived from the Ecuadorean camp of Reyes after it was bombed by the Colombian air force and raided by the Colombian army.

According to the court, the military officials who obtained the evidence were not authorized to gather evidence to be used in Colombian courts, because this falls under the responsibilities of the judicial police.

Except for the Prosecutor General's Office "no other power in the country has the authority to bring evidence from abroad, even less when ignoring foreign authorities," said the court. The validity of the content of what was found on the computers can also not be verified as the alleged emails were copied into Word documents without indication of sender or receiver, the country's highest court said.

More:
http://www.colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/16368-supreme-court-dismisses-reyes-files-as-evidence.html