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Google searches nab hit-and-run driver

• markbao 18y ago
  "Harbert was convicted and sentenced to three years in prison" Person drives drunk, hits and kills pedestrian, drives off, lies to court. Gets 3 years in prison. What the hell?
  • raquo 18y ago
    I think someone should make a summary table of the form Type of crime | min punishment | max punishment | avg punishment
    • alecco 18y ago
      | attorney hourly rates And the other obvious one.
• iigs 18y ago
  So, is the takeaway from this that if you are a suspect in any kind of serious crime you can expect your computer to be searched and/or seized? I'm glad that justice appears to have been served in this instance, but it never occurred to me that checking your browser cache was routine procedure for searches.
• gravitycop 18y ago
  Article excerpt: This isn't the first time that police have used Google searches to nab suspects. Police Blotter has chronicled a 2006 case involving a wireless hacker ("how to broadcast interference over wifi 2.4 GHZ") and a 2008 case involving a woman convicted of murdering her husband ("decomposition of a body in water"). Searches in a 2005 murder case included "neck," "snap," and "break."