Question

Use the web or other resources to research at least two criminal or civil cases in which  recovered files played a significant role in how the case was resolved.

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30-Year-Old Murder Solved

Fingerprint Technology Played Key Role

The crime: In 1978, 61-year-old Carroll Bonnet was stabbed to death in his apartment. Police collected evidence, including latent fingerprints and palm prints from the victim’s bathroom (officers believed the killer was trying to wash off blood and other evidence before leaving the apartment). The victim’s car was then stolen.

The investigation: The car was found in Illinois, but after collecting additional latent prints, investigators couldn’t develop any new leads. The crime scene evidence was processed, and latent prints recovered from the scene and the car were searched against local and state fingerprint files. Investigators also sent fingerprint requests to agencies outside Nebraska, but no matches were returned and the case soon went cold.

The re-investigation: In late 2008, the Omaha Police Department received an inquiry on the case, prompting technician Laura Casey to search the prints against IAFIS (which didn’t exist in 1978). In less than five hours, IAFIS returned possible candidates for comparison purposes. Casey spent days carefully examining the prints and came up with a positive identification—Jerry Watson, who was serving time in an Illinois prison on burglary charges.

The case was officially re-opened and assigned to the cold case squad’s Doug Herout. Working with laboratory technicians and analysts, Herout reviewed the original evidence from the case, including a classified advertisement flyer with “Jerry W.” scribbled on one of the pages. Herout also discovered that Jerry Watson had lived only a few blocks from where the victim’s car was recovered.

And the discovery was made just in time—Watson was just days away from being released from prison.

Herout traveled to Illinois to question Watson and presented him with an order to obtain a DNA sample. Subsequent testing determined that Watson’s DNA matched DNA recovered at the crime scene, a finding that—combined with Watson’s identified prints—resulted in murder charges and a conviction. On October 17, 2011—33 years to the day that Bonnet’s body was discovered—his killer was sentenced to life in prison.

Court Orders Dish Network to Pay $280 million for Illegal Telemarketing Calls
United States v. Dish Network, LLC

Press Release
Docket Number: 3:09-CV-03073 (C.D. Ill.)

On June 5, 2017, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois ordered Dish Network, LLC to pay $280 million in civil penalties and damages to the United States and the states of California, Illinois, North Carolina, and Ohio in connection with more than 100 million illegal telemarketing calls. The Court found that Dish and various “retailers” the company hired to market its products and services made millions of telemarketing calls to phone numbers on the National Do-Not-Call Registry, calls to persons who asked sellers not to call them, and illegal robocalls.

The civil penalties include $168 million payable to the United States related to at least 66 million illegal calls by Dish and its retailers. The Court also imposed strong injunctive relief against Dish to prevent future violations. The decision was the culmination of eight years of litigation and a five-week trial arising out of an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission into Dish’s violations of the FTC’s Telemarketing Sales Rule.