Riley’s own commissioned study existed three years before trial and was never produced.

Evidence

It was a report, sixty pages in length, by a firm named Yankee Environmental Engineering. The first page bore the title “Hydrogeologic Investigation of the John J. Riley Tanning Company.” The study, which Riley himself had commissioned, had been completed in 1983, three years before the start of trial. — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action, 2921

Categorization

• CANDY: The incriminating document was written by the defendant’s own hired engineers and buried until after the verdict.