Posted by: Frederick Lane
on 23 March 2011
Motion to Suppress Denied -- Defendant was a target of an investigation into an "account takeover" scam. Based on the results of their investigation, law enforcement agents applied for and received search warrants for the apartment of defendant's girlfriend, and a silver-colored Lexus automobile, which contained a laptop with relevant evidence.
Posted by: Frederick Lane
on 22 March 2011
Conviction affirmed -- Defendant was convicted of production, possession, and receipt of child pornography, and was sentenced to life plus ten years in prison. Defendant appealed, arguing that the district court erred by admitting evidence of a prior sexual assault, and by issuing improper jury instructions.
Posted by: admin
on 06 February 2011
Laptop Search Upheld -- Defendant was indicted with various co-conspirators for stealing personal identifying information of other individuals and using it to file fraudulent unemployment claims in Texas. During their investigation, law enforcement officers learned from a co-conspirator that the defendant had stashed a cardboard box box and laptop computer at his girlfriend's apartment, and they went there to retrieve them.
Posted by: Frederick Lane
on 03 October 2009
A massive investigation by federal, state, and local law enforcement officials led to the arrest last week of Najibullah Zazi, 24, on charges that he was preparing to manufacture and use the same type of explosives used in the London subway bombings in 2005.
Posted by: Frederick Lane
on 05 November 2008
Researchers at Edith Cowan University in Perth and Western Australia law enforcement have developed a 'breathalyzer' for laptops, a self-contained software package that can scan a hard drive for contraband without altering the disk's data.
The goal is to make it easier for 'front line' officers with little computer training to conduct a forensically-sound scan of computers for child pornography. Roll-out is planned for the spring of 2009.
Posted by: Frederick Lane
on 23 October 2008
An unusually detailed summary of computer forensic evidence was published earlier today in the Marion (Ohio) Star. The testimony was presented by Bill Hawk, an computer forensics expert from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation, in the rape trial of Danny Starner, 55.
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