How do i recover permanently deleted emails from gmail

how can i retrieve emails i had deleted from my (GMAIL) trash folder?

There is no answer at this time.

Did you click "Delete Forever" on the items in your trash folder?

Then it is deleted forever.

google cannot access my account and restore them? what if the police
need to know what i have been deleting?

The police could obtain warrants to examine Google's server,forensic
recovery techniques could be used,they can get very expensive.

for me or for the police?

Generally speaking for them,you might want to talk to a lawyer if it's for you.

what can a lawyer do? force google to restore my emails?

Betodesign101,

I think we're getting a bit confused. 

Are you trying to make sure that the police can't read your deleted
email, or are you trying to force GMail to recover email that you
expressly deleted?

- Hammer

i deleted some emails by mistake and i want them back. if lawyers and
police can get them why can't I?

Betodesign101,

I don't work for GMail, but I do have some experience with these things. 

If a court orders GMail to produce your deleted emails, they *may*,
with a tremendous amount of work be able to locate some remaining
"residue" of your deleted emails in places like archives or backups.
This means that, if the timing was right, a deleted message or two
*might* happen to be floating around. If the case was tremendously
important, forensics might even be performed designed to recover items
that have been "deleted" but not yet overwritten/eradicated.  However,
this is not something they would even attempt to do under normal
circumstances.

Think of it this way:
A hospital has the ability to pump your stomach to remove poison or to
perform abdominal surgery to remove foriegn objects, but they wouldn't
do so because you ate something you didn't like the taste of.

When you pressed Delete, GMail deleted your messages, as you instructed.

- Hammer

You can(try at least)to convince Google to allow you access to it's
servers and then learn advanced data recovery techniques .Failing that
maybe the arresting officer won't show up at the trial or the judge
will have a heart attack etc.

Thanks : hammer-ga,that's what I was getting at.

so the odds of me getting my emails back are 1 in a million? if so
just say so. thanx.

Your chance of getting your deleted emails back are LESS than one-in-a-million.

~~Cynthia