Courtroom and Cases

24 Oct Was the Warrant Built on a Technical Impossibility?

Posted at 15:20h in Courtroom and Cases by Aaron Weston

One of the first questions defense lawyers ask me isn't about the phone at all. It's about the warrant. Was it issued on technical claims that were actually possible, or on claims that only sound right to a judge reading an affidavit at the end of a long day? It's a...

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21 Oct Cross-Examining a Police Digital Forensic Examiner or Expert Witness

Posted at 21:14h in Courtroom and Cases by Aaron Weston

I've watched it happen more than once. The Crown calls an officer from the tech crimes unit. They've testified dozens or hundreds of times. They walk the jury through the extraction in calm, confident language, read lines from the report, and use words like "recovered," "confirmed" and "consistent with." Defence...

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20 Aug When the Software Lies: The 2:27 A.M. Timestamp in the Karen Read Trial

Posted at 09:34h in Courtroom and Cases by Aaron Weston

Software shows the surface; artifacts reveal reality. Learn why digital evidence must be investigated....

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