Beyond A Reasonable Doubt Page #9

I mean, absolutely no one at the DA's

office can know about this.

Absolutely no one.

It cannot go through the regular channels.

I'll set it up for tonight.

Danielle, there could

be danger here.

Danger?

Hi.

What can I do for you this

evening, Miss Crystal?

I'm really sorry

to bother you, Sergeant,

especially after hours.

It's just I am overwhelmed

with casework and...

I haven't even been able

to start my report for DA Hunter.

He's gonna have my ass tomorrow if...

Am I supposed to be following you

on all of this?

Oh, sorry.

I get kind of wound up

when I'm nervous.

We're doing an in-house study

on how crime scene evidence,

specifically photos,

are archived

by both the state

and local police departments...

if there's anything we can do

to improve that system,

you know, keep the bad guys in prison.

Which brings me back

to my first question:

Is there anything I can do for you

this evening, Miss Crystal?

Yes. Would you please show me

how and where the digital images

are downloaded from

the photographers' CF cards?

How safe are they? Oh, and also,

are they JPEG compressed files

or are they uncompressed? I want to

compare that to the sheriff's office.

If you look down there, there's a big old

double-bolted metal door.

Now all the physical

evidence is stored in there

along with the hard drives.

And only the evidence sergeant

has the combination to the lock.

As far as images go,

I don't know if they're J-whatever-

you-said or not.

They're all stored on a server.

And you can't access to it without

somebody with a passcode.

And there ain't too many somebodies

with a passcode.

And you might be one

of those somebodies?

No doubt.

Can you show them to me?

Please?

You got a case number?

Me? No.

Anything is fine.

Let's see.

How about 11151?

That's from...

May 21, 2006.

Sure, that's fine.

Evidence Sergeant Gilbert.

This is Colletti from Major Crime.

We need the skirt and blouse

from case 18446.

We need to do a DNA match

with the perp we've got in custody.

We might have just caught ourselves

a serial rapist.

I need to know if you have it.

You want me to go

get it right now?

No, I want you tell my captain

he'll get it tomorrow instead.

All right, hang on.

Goddamn son of a b*tch.

It's like goddamn

rush hour around here.

Goddamn son of a b*tch.

I'm on a circus train

that's full of midgets.

Goddamn son of a b*tch.

Everything has got to be right now.

I've got your goddamn

right now right here.

Okay.

Okay, come on, come on,

come on, come on, come on.

Damn it.

Son of a b*tch clown crap.

Everything's right now.

God damn it.

If I wanted to talk to people

I would have stayed in vice.

Right now, right now, right now.

Goddamn everything's got to be

goddamn right now.

Son of a b*tch.

No, we ain't got it down here.

Are you sure?

Case 18446, you don't have it?

I'm sure 'cause ain't nobody

logged it in neither.

They must have

got the number wrong.

I'm in some major sh*t here.

I'll call you back.

Yeah, you do that.

Ow!

So how you doing, ace?

What's this all about?

- Guard!

- Easy easy.

Just want to see how you're getting on.

Is the food okay?

They taking care of you?

You know, sometimes it gets kinda

lonely in here.

Why don't you just cut the bullshit?

You want something. What is it?

Can't a guy even come by

and see how you're doing?

- What the hell do you want?

- World peace. What do you want?

I want everyone to know

what a scumbag you really are.

- Oh, me?

- Yeah, you.

No.

No, I put away the bad guys.

You planted the evidence.

You do know they monitor

the phones here, don't you?

You take care, ace.

You son of a b*tch!

Hi. Come on in here.

Ella?

- You must be Roberta.

- Yeah.

You and Danielle may

turn out to be lifesavers.

I mean literal lifesavers.

I can't thank you enough.

Do you have it? I want to see it.

She has it, right?

Ella, this is Dell and Allen.

They're both post-doctorates here.

Sociability is not their strong suit.

- Say hello to Ella.

- Hello.

- Do you have it?

- Here you go, fellas.

They're not used to actually speaking

to other vertebrates,

- so be patient.

- Right.

Uh, the second one there.

- Are these real dead people?

- I'm afraid so.

These are great.

Can I make a copy?

No, Allen.

That would be against the law.

I'm Dell.

He's Allen.

Sorry, Dell.

Can you open this photograph right here?

All right,

here's what I'm looking for.

You see this cigarette right here?

I need to know if you think it's possible

that this cigarette was added after the fact.

They're uncompressed.

- Why's that good?

- The more resolution the more metadata.

- Metadata?

- She doesn't know what metadata is.

She knows lots of stuff

that you don't know.

Metadata is literally

data about data.

Digital images are comprised of pixels.

That's the data.

If you look closer you find

that there's metadata

around the pixels.

Watch. Look over here.

- See the patterns?

- Uh-huh.

Tell her about what Lukas and Fridrich

and Goljan found.

Tell her about the statistic

characteristics of imaging sensors.

Shut up.

Three researchers at Binghamton

found that cameras

have a pattern noise

and if you look closely enough

you can find that there is a difference

in the pattern noise

of the algorithm of each camera

even though they're mass manufactured.

There's a subtle difference

in each one.

It's actually like

a digital fingerprint.

So let's look at the pattern

on this part of the image.

- See it?

- Uh-huh.

Now let's move over to the cigarette

and see that pattern.

It's different.

Can you see it?

That cigarette was definitely not

part of the original photograph.

Oh my God.

Sh*t.

What was it?

Two, three, four.

Four orange.

Orange orange.

Where is it?

Ah.

Oh!

You all right?

- How'd you know?

- I was following him following you.

Never liked that son of a b*tch.

I knew he was up to something

so I followed him.

I don't know what else

to say but thank you.

It's what I do.

We ain't all like him.

I know.

I know.

I've got to call this in.

It's gonna be a shitstorm.

He's not the only part.

This storm's bigger than you think.

We could be talking Katrina here.

In an incredible turn of events,

District Attorney Mark Hunter

was arrested

and charged with the falsifying

of evidence

in the murder trial of Andre Benson

causing a mistrial in that case

and 17 others,

including the trial of Channel 8 reporter

CJ Nicholas.

Hunter was taken to the county jail

and booked this afternoon.

Bail is pending.

Harold Rice, who is now

the acting district attorney,

said that his office has to

review the Nicholas trial

along with the others

because all DNA evidence

in these trials is now suspect.

Rice said that he has serious doubts

that there was enough

evidence to retry Nicholas

as the case was circumstantial

and not that strong

without the DNA evidence.

As a result, he saw no reason

to keep him in prison.

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