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/0,1283,49141,00.html Kid Porn Case a Cautionary Tale By Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 2:00 a.m. Dec. 17, 2001 PST (Final installment of a five-part series. In the previous installment, police charge Larry Benedict with trading child pornography, but vital electronic evidence is altered or missing.) CANANDAIGUA, New York -- It's been nearly seven years since Larry Benedict was accused of swapping child porn, but his reluctant trek through the criminal justice system is far from over. The 44-year-old Xerox engineer's first brush with the law came when a squad of federal and state police ransacked his home in February 1995, looking for illicit photographs. After three or four hours, they carted off over two-dozen postal bins filled with floppy disks, computer equipment and even his stereo system. They didn't find any physical contraband, and a U.S. Postal Service specialist perused Benedict's computer and did not immediately report any illicit files. But prosecutors said that two envelopes, which Benedict sent to an acquaintance in San Diego, contained a floppy disk and a tape backup overflowing with child porn images. Benedict's attorneys claim that the U.S. Attorney's office refused to turn over the magnetic media; the government insists it was always available. For whatever reason, the defense never managed until a few months ago to send the electronic evidence to an independent forensics expert to be examined. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
