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

The data isn't gone until....

[banbeans]

ontrack says it is gone

http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/

They only failed me once and that was because a head crash took out the part of the physical disk the file was on that my client needed recovered most.