Lawyers for Satoshi claimant Craig Wright have strongly criticised a magistrate's order as wrong in law and "based in significant part on personal attacks" against Wright and his Kenyan attorney.
Wright's team was objecting to the Order on Discovery filed in the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Florida, that required him to produce a cache of 11,000 documents in a multi-billion lawsuit issued by the estate of his late business partner Dave Kleiman. They said the "order is clearly erroneous and contrary to law. It should be reversed and vacated".
Earlier in the case, Magistrate Judge Bruce E Reinhart dismissed Wright's attempts to claim attorney client privilege over the documents using a variety of different legal arguments. Reinhart said he "gave no weight" to Wright's sworn statements, and that he had been known to produce fake documents.
'I am lawyer' says note from Kenyan man
Wright had submitted a sworn, un-notarised declaration from a Kenyan man named Denis Bosire Mayaka who he claimed was his attorney. The note said: "I am lawyer [sic] and obtained my bachelor of law degree in 2007 from Moi University in Kenya." Reinhart said it "could easily have been generated by anyone with word processing software and a pen."
In his 'Objection of Magistrate Order on Discovery' Wright's attorneys said doubts over their client's credibility and prior determinations about forgery should not have been a factor when considering Mr Mayaka's credibility.
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