--- Date: 23 Jun 2003 16:07:54 -0000 From: Stern <Sternat_private> To: declanat_private Subject: ATM time-stamp leads to false arrests ATM time-stamp leads to false arrests for murder http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19633-2003Jun21.html "The Arizona suspects were just the latest of five innocent people to be jailed and eventually exonerated in a homicide case that remains unsolved, hampered for months by investigative mistakes." "...the faulty assumption that the bank's transaction computer and the ATM camera kept synchronized time. As it turns out, they did not." "Although the [suspects[, on the videotape, seemed to be standing at the teller machine at the same time $200 was withdrawn from [the victims] account, the three actually got money from the ATM several minutes earlier, with legitimate cards..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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