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need a stern talking to from their state bar associations.


https://electrek.co/2025/08/04/tesla-withheld-data-lied-misdirected-police-plaintiffs-avoid-blame-autopilot-crash/

2 | 23 May 2019 – Tesla’s lawyer scripts the homicide investigator’s evidence request
Corporal Riso, a homicide investigator with the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP), sought Tesla’s help in retrieving telemetry data to aid in reconstructing the crash.

He was put in contact with Tesla attorney Ryan McCarthy and asked if he needed to subpoena Tesla to get the crash data.

Riso said of McCarthy during the trial:

“He said it’s not necessary. ‘Write me a letter and I’ll tell you what to put in the letter.’ ”

At the time, he didn’t see Tesla as an adversary in this case and thought that McCarthy would facilitate the retrieval of the data without having to go through a formal process. However, the lawyer crafted the letter to avoid sending the police the full crash data.

Riso followed the instructions verbatim. He said during the trial:

“I specifically wrote down what the attorney at Tesla told me to write down in the letter.”
[Ed. Note: Also, Cpl Riso may be a moran]

But McCarthy specifically crafted the letter to omit sharing the collision snapshot, which includes bundled video, EDR, CAN bus, and Autopilot data.

Instead, Tesla provided the police with infotainment data with call logs, a copy of the Owner’s Manual, but not the actual crash telemetry from the Autopilot ECU.