Politech archive on U.S. v. Larry Benedict: http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=canandaigua
Photo essay: http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/larry-benedict-investigation.html --- http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,49013,00.html Where Was Kid Porn Evidence? By Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 2:00 a.m. Dec. 12, 2001 PST (Part 2 of a series. In the previous installment: Court records show puzzling inconsistencies in the case against Larry Benedict.) CANANDAIGUA, New York -- Larry Benedict's halcyon life as a soon-to-be husband, a senior engineer at Xerox and a computer-game buff abruptly ended on Feb. 10, 1995. On that chilly winter evening, an armed squad of New York state police and postal inspectors broke through Benedict's patio door. Their search warrant cited violations of 18 U.S.C. 2252: the federal child pornography law. In his application for a search warrant, veteran postal inspector Terrence Loftus wrote: "I do believe that there is evidence of the commission of a federal offense, contraband and the fruits of a violation of Title 18, United States Code ... at the residence of Lawrence Benedict." Born in 1944, Loftus began his career as a postal inspector in 1971, and eventually became a specialist in cases involving marijuana shipments, obscenity and child pornography. As of February 1995, Loftus claimed to have investigated over 40 child porn cases and to have participated in dozens of raids on defendants' homes. [...] While some of the variances in Loftus' testimony can be attributed to expected memory lapses -- he testified about the February 1995 raid four years later -- other discrepancies are more difficult to explain. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
