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By Sarena Straus, Esq.

Technology and the ProsecutorColposcope. Toluidine Blue Dye. Forensic Nurse with Rape Crisis expertise. Forensic Nurse with Child Abuse Expertise. A Working Wire. Heck. A Working Computer! Just a couple of items on my law enforcement wish list.In today?s New York Times, the front page article of the NY Regional Section was about how digital photography may be helping prosecutors obtain convictions in Domestic Violence cases. What is so advanced about digital photography? Nothing, but until now the tool available to the NYPD and to prosecutors in New York to record physical injury in a domestic violence or sexual abuse case was the Polaroid. What?!? A Polaroid?!? I bet some of you did not even know you could get a Polaroid any more. I appreciate the New York Times bringing attention to how much a now minor and fairly routine piece of technology can assist the prosecutions, but decent photographs documenting a crime or crime scene are only the tip of the iceberg...continue to full post

Full post as published by Prosecutor Postscript on May 07, 2007 (boomark / email).