Data Recovered From DVD Leads To Conviction, 24-Year Sentence

Lucas123 writes "The Santa Cruz, Calif. DA's office had been counting on a DVD with the recorded testimony of a victim in case against a serial rapist, but when they popped the video into the player, nothing came up — the disc was blank. To make matters worse, the cop who performed the original interview with the victim told the DA she never said she was 'forced,' so the judge wasn't going to allow the witness to testify in a case where her original statement to police was in conflict with her current testimony. After two local data recovery firms said there was no way to restore the data, a third was able to recover the police interview from two years earlier, which led the defendant to plead guilty earlier this month. Close call."

Comments

Re:That third house wasn't ILM was it? (not a joke

[ColdWetDog]

in a day where a few people in their basement can render decent cgi, I'm wondering if this "third firm" was not hired to do a little "extraordinary rendering"

For best results, one should loosen their tin-foil hat occasionally.

Just sayin'.

Re:Only Meta-Data was damaged

[bigjarom]

I'm interested to know how you came to this conclusion. Did you find the laser-etched dust particle on the finished disk?

Maybe you could send the dust to Seagate Recovery Service to get that blank section back.

Re:Dust on media

[Chris Tucker]

Usually it's physical contact first, THEN the tissue.