When the state Supreme Court ordered the attorney general to produce discoverable documents in the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission corruption cases earlier this month, Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille said that office still needs to review approximately 30 million subpoenaed electronic documents for privilege purposes before turning them over to the defendants.

The Attorney General’s Office declined to comment for this story, but lawyers who spoke with the Law Weekly expressed doubts about whether an agency would be able to review the 12 terabytes of data by the time the turnpike case is set for trial in November.

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