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2021-08-18 Cyber

Texas murder suspect released after massive police data loss puts trial evidence in jeopardy

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [15 views ] Top

#1 Under state law, pretrial detention is prohibited when prosecutors aren’t ready to begin trial on the scheduled date

Not to be confused with the District of Columbia, in which prosecutors have said they will not be able to provide possible exculpatory evidence till 2022, leaving 'accused' languishing in jail.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-08-18 06:07|| 2021-08-18 06:07|| Front Page Top

#2 A staple of good crime fiction is the purloined r-kive box of stale evidence that yields a new clue on the living room floor of the disgraced detective who stole it from the dusty archives. Now, "computer crashed. it's gone..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-18 09:31|| 2021-08-18 09:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Don't worry - you can arrest him after he kills again.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-08-18 09:37|| 2021-08-18 09:37|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't see why there was even a trial. They should give 'P-Money' his gun back and insist he kill more of his kind. Think of it as time served and community service.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-08-18 09:49|| 2021-08-18 09:49|| Front Page Top

#5 eight terabytes of data, which the Dallas Police Department said was permanently deleted months ago when a city IT employee was migrating police evidence from a cloud system to another server.

This smells fishy. The whole point of a cloud is things don't get deleted permanently. Also the should be a back up of the data pre-migration before the data is actually moved.

Posted by Hupoque Wittlesbach5189 2021-08-18 10:20|| 2021-08-18 10:20|| Front Page Top

#6 True. But shortcuts get taken sometimes--like not checking that a backup actually has data on it, or not verifying that you can get your cloudy data back again.

Posted by james 2021-08-18 12:16|| https://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2021-08-18 12:16|| Front Page Top

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