Cyberbullying Student Court CaseInstructor Resources

Dr. Darren HayesPace University

Agenda

• Sources of Digital Evidence

• Admissibility of Evidence

• Potential Charges• Brad Smalls, Senior

• Charlene Davis, Sophmore

• Rachel Vasquez, Sophmore

• Jillian Kopley, Sophmore

• High School

Sources of Digital Evidence

• Facebook• Letter of Preservation (LOP)

• Warrant Web Server• Web Server Logs• Account Access Times

• IP Addresses

• Stored Files• HTML Files

• Images

• Victim’s Computer

• Perpetrator’s Computer

Sources of Digital Evidence

• Cellular Telephone• Cellphone Carrier• Server Files• Connection Times

• Text Messages Sent

• Images Sent

• SIM Card• Saved Text Messages

• Deleted Text Messages

• Global Positioning System (GPS)

Sources of Digital Evidence

• Student ID Card• Photocopies of Image• Date & Time Stamps

Sources of Digital Evidence

• Victim’s Computer• HTML Files & Images (Facebook)

• E-Mail Downloads

• Event Logs (Registries)

Sources of Digital Evidence

• Yahoo• Mail Server Logs

• Mail Server E-Mail

• Screenshots

• Printed E-Mails

Admissibility of Evidence

• E-Mail• Rombom, et al. v. Weberman, et al.• Plaintiff testified he received e-mail from defendant and

printed them out

• Digital Images• Richardson’s 4-212• Photographs “are admissible whenever relevant to describe the

physical characteristics of a person, place or thing.”

• People v. Patterson• Old rules apply to new technologies

• Frye and Daubert Test

Potential Charges

• Brad Smalls, Senior• Impersonation (Facebook)

• Criminal Harassment or Aggravated Harassment

• Possession/Distribution of Child Pornography

• Common Law Defamation

• Common Law Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress

Potential Charges

• Charlene Davis, Sophmore• Criminal Harassment or Aggravated Harassment

• Possession/Distribution of Child Pornography

• Common Law Defamation

• Common Law Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress

Potential Charges

• Rachel Vasquez, Sophmore• Criminal Harassment or Aggravated Harassment

• Common Law Defamation

• Common Law Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress

Potential Charges

• Jillian Kopley, Sophmore• Criminal Harassment or Aggravated Harassment

• Common Law Defamation

• Common Law Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress

Potential Charges

• High School• Failure to report Child Abuse (Assault & Battery)

Questions

Darren Hayes

dhayes@pace.edu