Gosh judge, we didn't realize we had passed that thing over a powered degausser a half dozen times when we were boxing it up to deliver the evidence to court as you ordered. We're sorry for the f'up, hope you can get something useful from the drives still.
This would be a great thing…sure hope it happens. But I’m expecting it to be lost or dropped accidentally from the Empire State Building or some such.
Gosh judge, we didn't realize we had passed that thing over a powered degausser a half dozen times when we were boxing it up to deliver the evidence to court as you ordered. We're sorry for the f'up, hope you can get something useful from the drives still.
Or stolen from someones car.
Like you I suspect a resist , delay and obstruct coming.