CoJ Case 070

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DB vs Esbelta Teresa Amaral #16960 was the seventieth case tried by the Chamber of Justice. The sitting Justicar was Kamjin "Maverick" Lap'lamiz, the Left Hand of Justice was Qormus Aquila, and the Right Hand of Justice was Ood Bnar.

Basic Case Information

Defendant

• Esbelta Teresa Amaral #16960

Charges

• Six Counts: Violation of Covenant section 7.06(e) - Cloning
• Forth Counts: Violation of Covenant section 7.06(s) - Violations of Brotherhood Policies (e.g., Vandalism of Wiki)

Verdict

• GUILTY

Sentence

• DELETION of all clone dossiers;
• LETTER OF REPRIMAND permanently applied to the member’s primary dossier;
• PERMANENT BAN ON IP SHARING for Esbelta Teresa Amaral. No other member will be allowed to join from the same IP address;
• Recommended sentence: EXPULSION.

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Members of the Dark Jedi Brotherhood,

The Chamber of Justice has convened and issued a verdict in the pending case of DB v. Esbelta Teresa Amaral. Following an investigation, Esbelta Teresa Amaral was charged with six counts of Cloning and forty counts of Vandalism.

The detailed Verdict and Justicar's Opinion for the case can be found in the PDF file linked below. Please note that the written opinion is generally found on the page after announcement of the verdict.

The verdict was as follows:

Case #070 - DB v. Esbelta Teresa Amaral - Opinion PDF

• Six Counts of Cloning: GUILTY
• Forty Counts of Vandalism: GUILTY

Punishment:

• DELETION of all clone dossiers;
• LETTER OF REPRIMAND permanently applied to the member's primary dossier;
• PERMANENT BAN ON IP SHARING for Esbelta Teresa Amaral. No other member will be allowed to join from the same IP address;
• Recommended sentence: EXPULSION

Following a recommended sentence of expulsion a jury of Esbelta Teresa Amaral's peers was randomly selected and presented with the evidence. After review and voting the juror elected to accept the recommended sentence and, henceforth, Esbelta Teresa Amaral shall be expelled from the Brotherhood.

Signed and sealed in Justice, Kamjin "Maverick" Lap'lamiz

Justicar's Opinion

Facts

On October 3, 2023 Esbelta Teresa Amaral joined the Dark Jedi Brotherhood. On October 4, 2023 a second account was registered under the name Queen Esbelta Teresa Amaral.

While being researched by the Right Hand of Justice on October 5, 2023 two additional accounts were registered under Queen EsbeltaTeresa Amaral and Queen EsbeltaTeresaAmaral. The Right Hand of Justice then reached out to inquire about the nature of the clone account.

On October 14, 2023 a fifth account was registered under Queen EsbeltaTeresaAmaral. At this time, the fifth account was utilized to make 40 edits to the DJBWiki to the following DB and Clan controls pages (Ante, Arx System, Caelus System, Caperion, Caperion System, Cor’neria System, Coratua, Coratua System, Antei Nebula, Samur, Kih, Veridion, Calabrex, Andrion, Liren, Geroha, Antares Major, Geles, Dajorra).

Prior to this the Chamber of Justice, Councilors, Consuls, and others had observed several of Esbelta Teresa Amaral’s accounts modifying the default possessions granted to new members with different names.

The Grand Master was informed that Esbelta had escalated from modifying personal possessions to the DJBWiki. In order to preserve the security of the site, an Order of Advanced Incarceration was issued to prevent further vandalism to DJBWiki pages or other accessible club channels.

On October 15, 2023, the Appeals Panel reviewed the Order of Advanced Incarceration and in accordance to Cov. 7.08 ratified the Order as necessary.

On October 15, 2023 a sixth account was registered under Queen Esbelta Teresa Amaral. All six accounts utilized different email addresses that were a variation of the same name.

Throughout the month of October Esbelta Teresa Amaral failed to respond to any outreach attempts from numerous members of the Dark Jedi Brotherhood preventing further understanding of their intent.

Analysis

When is a clone not a clone? Probably when it’s a bot. Following a simple Google search of this person’s name “Esbelta Teresa Amaral” reveals several similar entries on multiple sites, including duplicate records on one site, utilizing the same name, picture, and different text that appears to be randomly generated via an AI program.

The behavior undertaken by this individual appeared to be testing to what extent they had control of the site as a logged in member.

While the onset behavior, creating of clone accounts and modifying personal possessions to have different names, had minimal impact. The escalation to the DJBWiki required immediate and severe action to protect the Brotherhood’s assets.

If not for this escalation of vandalism of the DJBWiki I would have been inclined for a lesser sentence whereby the accounts created after the original attempt would be removed and we would provide guidance to the member. While there is a requirement to reply to outreach by the Chamber, there is not such a requirement to engage with our community.

Given that this individual instead chose to begin defacing our DBJWiki and has, to date, refused to engage with us, a stricter handling of the situation is required for the protection of the Brotherhood.

Sentencing

In reviewing the positions of the Right and Left Hand of Justice a significant time was spent on were they a bot or an individual taking these actions. From a legal framework this is a question of malicious intent.

If it were a human, was this ‘childish’ behavior as the edits were minor in nature. Most often adding ‘my’ or ‘mine’ to the end of the page. Or, as a Bot, was it intentionally built to manipulate data for some unknown cause.

As I weighed their positions I came to a conclusion that in either situation, through the lack of engagement, there was no way of coaching, guiding, and preventing the behavior from recurring. In such a situation the only viable course was to remove the individual from being able to attempt the same actions in the future.

As such, I have convened an expulsion jury with the recommended sentence of expulsion of the individual. I regret that my first official act as Justicar is to deny someone access to our community. It is my desire that if they were to reach out in the future and explain their actions to the satisfaction of the leadership at that time that they may have a path to redemption.

/s/ Kamjin "Maverick" Lap'lamiz

Points of Interest

This is the first occurrence of a suspected bot passing through the various site security measures to successfully register as a member and then take actions within the organization before cloning themselves.

The assumption was made that this was an individual who most likely was utilizing a bot to facilitate their actions. As such, they were awarded the full rights under the Covenant for representation from the Left Hand of Justice and a trial by Justicar was executed when no response was received from various outreaches to the member.