Courts in Northern Ireland have made important admissibility rulings regarding the authentication of videos presented as evidence in terrorism cases. One case addresses the admission of key video evidence when no…
Case Study: How a YouTube Rap Video was Used to Convict a Defendant
Video uploaded to social media sites must be authenticated in order to be admissible. The question of what level of proof is required to meet the authentication requirement was explored recently…
Case Study: Authenticating Facebook Video – “We Live!”
The admissibility of Facebook video was at issue in Lamb v. State of Florida, 246 So.3d 400 (2018) (District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District). The defendant was being tried for…
Case Study: Facial Recognition Evidence Premised on Surveillance Video Rejected Due to Unreliability
A recent California case provides yet another illustration of how conclusions premised on the analysis of images obtained from surveillance video must be reached by people who have forensic video…
Case Study: Vehicle Speed Determination Based on Video Evidence Rejected as Being Unhelpful
Determining the speed of motor vehicles involved in collisions is central to virtually all cases where fatalities have occurred. I have prosecuted countless criminal driving fatality cases wherein speed was integral…
Case Study: Vehicle Speed Determination from Video Evidence – Video Evidence Excluded Due to Unreliability and Failure to Authenticate
State of New Hampshire v. Witty (unreported, November 25/15, New Hampshire Superior Court, Southern District, Docket No. 226-2014 CR-00568) is an interesting case wherein the state sought to lead vehicle…
Case Study: Trial Judge Performs Image Comparison When Crown Fails to Present Expert Evidence
In R. v. Ermine, 2018 SKQB 77 (Saskatchewan Court of Queen’s Bench), the trial judge was placed in the position of having to conduct his own video analysis because the…
The Court Needs the Best Video Evidence Available: Why a Qualified Forensic Video Expert is Essential
The function of a trial court is to decide the legal dispute that is brought before it by the litigants. In a criminal case, it is the state that charges…
Frame by Frame Analysis: Better than Just Hitting Play
Video images can provide significant information about what occurred during an event and about the people involved. Being an objective observer, the video camera records the events that occurred before…
Case Study: Failure to Authenticate Surveillance Video Leads to Exclusion of Evidence
Authentication is a prerequisite for the admissibility of video evidence. As discussed in several articles on this website, failure by the tendering party to lead sufficient reliable evidence to prove…
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