FC: ATM time-stamp leads to false arrests for murder

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Date: 23 Jun 2003 16:07:54 -0000
From: Stern <Stern () nym alias net>
To: declan () well com
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teller machine at the same time $200 was withdrawn from [the victims] 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..."




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