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Lawyer here. I’d hope the Defense lawyer raised a slew of objections. There are serious foundation, authenticity, and chain of custody issues here. On top of t
by thathndude 5y ago
Lawyer here. I’d hope the Defense lawyer raised a slew of objections. There are serious foundation, authenticity, and chain of custody issues here.
On top of that, another way around this is under the confrontation clause. The accused has the right to question any witnesses against them. So I’d demand to cross examine the “tech” that ran the scan and make it apparent that no one knows how the box works (that’s the whole point; it’s proprietary). And then ask them simple questions like “cookies images have been placed on my clients device if no one knows how the box works?”
The real advantage of these celebrite boxes, for law enforcement, that they give them leads to otherwise admissible evidence. So that’s why I’m shocked to hear that they actually tried to use information from the phone.
- omgwtfbyobbq 5y agoAnd then ask them simple questions like “cookies images have been placed on my clients device if no one knows how the box works?” I'm sure the answer to that would be delicious. ;)
- meowster 5y agoI imagine it was an autoincorrect of "could imagines have..."
- dylan604 5y agoor even an autoincorrect of "could images have..."
- generalizations 5y agoI thought it was "could these images have..."
- salawat 5y ago>could imagines have... Auto-correct was a mistake. Either that or a malicious undertaking cleverly disguised in the cloak of legitimate best intentions. Could images have.
- omgwtfbyobbq 5y agoWhen I first read that line I had an image of the cookie monster sitting in court as a defendant.
- WrtCdEvrydy 5y agoMy first argument to any court on this "magical boxes" is to provide the original backup from adb or iTunes. Seriously, these things just use the built-in device backup and analyze it, you can even do it yourself for free using Autopsy which is a GUI for TSK.