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Forensic News Journal
Digital Evidence and Legal Proceedings, pg 30-34
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Digital Evidence and

Legal Proceedings

By Matthew J Jackson

Photo Courtesy of themindunleashed
When it comes to submit- principles of investigation, and the Internet. St. Louis:

ting digital evidence for though the scene can now Academic Press).
use in a trial, the same be a virtual environment A wider array of devices
levels of care need to be that must be secured and are capable of holding

applied as with non-digital examined as digital evi- larger amounts of data
evidence. dence. and digital evidence can

be found on an increasing
Crime is a part of human Digital evidence is infor- number of types of storage
life and, for a crime to be mation or data of an evi- media, including, com-

resolved, investigators dential value that is stored puter hard drives, mobile
must reconstruct the crime on or transmitted by a phones and removable

scene and analyze the ac- computer or digital device media such as memory
tions of both the suspect and can be defined as fol- cards.
and the victim so that any lows:

evidence can be identified As an expert witness and
and used to support and ‘Any data stored or trans- Digital Forensic Consul-

legal proceedings. mitted using a computer tant, I am finding that dig-
that support or refute a ital evidence is becoming
As technology has theory of how an offense more prevalent within a

evolved, criminals are occurred or that address wider range of both crimi-
now able to use new meth- critical elements of the of- nal and civil cases in-

ods to commit traditional fense such as intent or al- cluding murder, unlawful
crimes and develop new ibi’ (Casey, E., Dunne, R. images, child care cases,
types of crimes. Crimes (2004) Digital Evidence commercial and employ-

committed using technol- and Computer Crime Fo- ment disputes. These
ogy still require the same rensic Science, Computers cases can require the ex-

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