In my limited experience and understanding, I would think any information pertaining to the case that is possible evidence would be presented to the court in order to determine the most appropriate verdict. So why seal documents if they could heavily impact the verdict? Isn’t that like saying “Hey, the defendants gun was recovered, but we’re going to set that fact aside, and you can’t use that against him.”
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Things are sealed because court records are public, not police reports but all court filings are UNLESS they are sealed. They can be sealed for any number of reasons, information about a victim that is unnecessarily embarrassing/revealing, a confidential information/undercover is still ‘operating’ in the same capacity and saying ‘hey someone in the gang is a rat’ is likely to put them in danger, they aren’t ‘sealed’ from the jury they are sealed from the public
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