Federal Judge Finds NYPD Engaged In Evidence Spoliation By Destroying...
Just recently, we discussed the revelation that former Police Commissioner Ray Kelly's emails were deleted right as he was exiting office -- despite being ordered by a federal court to preserve all...
View ArticleNo, The FBI Does Not 'Need' The Info On Farook's iPhone; This Is Entirely...
Over and over again as people keep talking about the Apple / FBI encryption stuff, I keep seeing the same line pop up. It's something along the lines of "but the FBI needs to know what's on that...
View ArticleMaryland Court Suppresses Evidence Gathered By Warrantless Stingray Use
The Maryland Special Appeals Court isn't buying government lawyers' arguments that warrantless deployment of Stingray devices has no 4th Amendment implications. The government had argued that...
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NY DA Cy Vance Asks Law Enforcement About Problems With Encryption; Won't...
Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance must be exhausted. Vance has been the New York face of the anti-encryption push -- a state-level James Comey with the NYPD as his backing band. He's held...
View ArticleApple Might Be Forced To Reveal & Share iPhone Unlocking Code Widely
Among the many questions swirling around the challenge to U.S. Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym's Order that Apple create software to bypass the iPhone passcode screen, a matter of paramount public interest...
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DEA's Definition Of Evidence Control Apparently Doesn't Include Recording...
Let's start out with this story, which is graphically (and tragically) illustrative of the problem discussed later in this post. A former police detective and Drug Enforcement Agency task force member...
View ArticleMedical Examiner Sues City Of New York After Being Forced Out Of Her Job For...
A lawsuit recently filed by an allegedly ousted New York City medical examiner lends more credibility to the theory that the justice system is more concerned with successful prosecutions than actual...
View ArticleJudge Tosses Evidence After 'COPS' Footage Contradicts Officer's Testimony
The mutual adoration society that is long-running reality show "COPS" has just landed one of its protagonists in the middle of an evidence suppression order. Evidently forgetting his star turn in an...
View ArticleFrench Police Report On Paris Attacks Shows No Evidence Of Encryption... So...
Support our crowdfunding campaign to help us keep covering stories like these! Over the weekend, the NY Times ran a big article providing a bunch of details about the Paris attacks from last year, now...
View ArticleMilwaukee PD Hid Stingray Usage From Judges, Defendants And Now Congress...
More evidence of Stingray obfuscation has been uncovered in Milwaukee. What appeared at first to be a bog standard court order for tracking of a suspect using a cell phone provider's own "network...
View ArticleCourt Says Government Needs More Than The Permission Of A Couple Of...
The Seventh Circuit Appeals Court has done something few courts do: told law enforcement it can't have that sweet, sweet "drug" money it lifted from two brothers for no other reason than that it felt...
View ArticleScientists Looking To Fix The Many Problems With Forensic Evidence
Everything everyone saw in cop shows as evidence linking people to crimes -- the hair left on someone's clothing, the tire tracks leading out to the road, the shell casings at the scene, etc. -- is...
View ArticleStingray Memo From FBI To Oklahoma Law Enforcement Tells PD To Engage In...
The concept of "checks and balances" kind of takes a beating when one branch of the government says it's ok to lie to another branch. We've already seen the FBI tell law enforcement agencies --...
View ArticleFederal Judge Says Internet Archive's Wayback Machine A Perfectly Legitimate...
Those of us who dwell on the internet already know the Internet Archive's "Wayback Machine" is a useful source of evidence. For one, it showed that the bogus non-disparagement clause KlearGear used to...
View ArticleJudge: Taking Your Facebook Account Private During Litigation Isn't Exactly...
If your social media "presence" has been submitted as evidence, you'd better leave everything about it unaltered. That's the conclusion reached by the judge presiding over a Fair Housing Act lawsuit....
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Judge Says The FBI Can Keep Its Hacking Tool Secret, But Not The Evidence...
Judge Robert Bryan -- having set his own house against itself by declaring the FBI could keep its NIT info secret while simultaneously declaring the defendant in the child porn case had every right to...
View ArticleTwo Days, Two Shootings, Two Sets Of Cops Making Recordings Disappear
There are cameras everywhere. But when cops start shooting, it's usually bullets and never footage. The first recordings that ever make their way to the public are those shot by bystanders. Anything...
View ArticleStore Owner Sues Baton Rouge Police For Seizing His CCTV Recording Of Alton...
I don't get to use the phrase "with alacrity" that often, but Baton Rouge store owner Abdullah Muflahi's filing of a lawsuit against the Baton Rouge police can only be described as that. Following the...
View ArticleAgent's Testimony Shows FBI Not All That Interested In Ensuring The Integrity...
Security researcher Jonathan Zdziarski has been picking apart the FBI's oral testimony on the NIT it deployed in the Matish/Playpen case. The judge presiding over that case denied Matish's suppression...
View ArticleFor The First Time, A Federal Judge Has Suppressed Evidence Obtained With A...
Evidence acquired using Stingray devices has rarely been suppressed. This is due to the fact that it's almost impossible to challenge. The reason it's almost impossible to challenge is because the FBI...
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