Canada: Computer Evidence Challenged at Trial
Jered Stuffco writes in The Globe and Mail:
The reliability of MSN Messenger logs in which two daughters allegedly discussed their alcoholic mother's murder was called into question in a courtroom yesterday.
Explaining that investigators found files with absurd time-stamps dating back to 1929 and 1970 on the family's computer, defence council Eugene Bhattacharya asked whether something was "amiss" with the evidence.
"I can offer no explanation to those dates," replied Peel Region Police Constable Joseph Coltson, a computer expert who analyzed the data after they were seized on Jan. 21, 2004.
Prosecutors allege the girls used the computer to research the murder, which was later carried out when the daughters plied their mother with vodka, wine and Tylenol 3s, eased her into a bathtub and held her head under the water.
posted by Fergie @ 11/22/2005 06:54:00 AM
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