more wrongness

i thought a little more about why the following is so absurd:

Dunn said the jury noted that both Hans and Nina Reiser's cell phone batteries had been removed after she disappeared, making it impossible to track their locations. A computer expert would immediately be familiar with the implications of removed batteries, he said.

Some may call me a "computer expert," and to the extent that i am " immediately [...] familiar with the implications of removed batteries" it is because I've seen people do it in the movies. I suspect that the police and other black-ops organizations can track me through my cell phone, but only because I, and pretty much everyone else in this nation, saw "The Matrix" a decade ago.

Yeah, I'm a "computer expert" but that doesn't give me any special insight into "things don't work when you remove their power source" that's beyond the insights of the average person (unless, of course, we're talking about the average juror).

However, as a "computer expert", I am aware that often, electronic devices have multiple batteries, and that it may be possible to track a person's cell phone even when the battery is out.

Now that is the sort of thing that maybe a "layperson" would not know, since it hasn't been widely reported in the movies. But that's not what mister jury man said.