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Proof: 'Pleading guilty and leaving it at that': Emails sink woman's claim she had no idea of plea

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50b7ae9cd49cdfed28b1f0f137a6b4cf775d659c877af6ca14e772ee276f7d76

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970275, mined 2026-10-07 02:46 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-07 02:12 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-07 02:12 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-50b7ae9cd49c.json prints 50b7ae9cd49cdfed28b1f0f137a6b4cf775d659c877af6ca14e772ee276f7d76. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-50b7ae9cd49c.json and headline-50b7ae9cd49c.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-50b7ae9cd49c.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 1 min after it was first seen.