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- From: duggan@terminus.gatech.edu (Rick Duggan)
- Subject: Re: ADVICE NEEDED: Former Apartment deduct
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.015542.25934@cc.gatech.edu>
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- Organization: College of Computing
- References: <1992Aug24.131520.18936@nynexst.com> <1992Aug25.231138.10733@pony.Ingres.COM> <BtLnnM.IJH@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 01:55:42 GMT
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- In article <BtLnnM.IJH@news.cso.uiuc.edu> bwhitlock@uiuc.edu writes:
- >reb@Ingres.COM (Phydeaux) writes:
- >
- >>In article <1992Aug24.131520.18936@nynexst.com> schwartz@nynexst.com writes:
- >>>Has anyone considered videotaping the cleaned, moved-out-of apartment?
- >>>(Don't forget to set the date feature on the camcorder.)
- >>>How secure is such evidence in court?
- >
- >>Setting the date proves nothing, you can set it to whatever date you
- >>want. But -- buying a newspaper and videotaping the headline and date
- >>along with the rest of the apartment will probably work.
- >> reb
- >
- >Unfortunately, even this can be tampered with, so it doesn't prove that
- >a tape was made on a certain day. It can prove that a tape wasn't made
- >before a certain day, however.
-
- All of the methods can be tampered with. After all, you could
- reseal the envelope that you sent to yourself. Your tape is
- only as good as your credibility. If the judge believes your
- story to begin with, the tape is icing on the cake. If the
- judge doesn't believe you, the tape does you no good. The
- same goes for still photos.
-
- -rick
-
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