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By K.C. Johnson

Two issues in the news over the past week have brought to mind lessons of the lacrosse case. The first, of course, came at Hofstra, where a freshman student named Danmell Ndonye falsely accused five men of raping her. Four of the men were arrested, solely on the basis of Ndonye?s claims; the only one of the four who was a Hofstra student was immediately suspended by the university. The falsely accused men were saved by technology: one of them had recorded the episode with his cell-phone camera, thereby proving that Ndonye was lying. One of the suspects admitted, ?It didn't look good for us. I thought we would do time.? Imagine this case without the existence of a cell-phone video capability?or the lacrosse case without cell-phone camera (which established a timeline), cell-phone triangulation technology (which showed Collin Finnerty wasn?t at the house when the ?crime? allegedly occurred), or bank ATM videos (which showed Reade Seligmann wasn?t at the house when the ?crime? allegedly occurred)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on September 21, 2009 (boomark / email).