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A number of years ago I testified on behalf of the defence as an expert witness in a Crown v. the accused in an invitation to sexual touching and possession of child pornography case in a Canadian criminal court.Those are pretty serious charges and someone that engages in such behaviour should be separated from society for an extended period of time and then monitored afterwards.The police investigation started with a complaint by the mother to NCMEC that the accused had tried to lure her daughter into sexual relationship.When the Toronto police obtained a warrant and seized the accused’s computer they found evidence that he used the IRC online name in the mother’s complaint and they found hundreds of child porn images. Resulting in the charges.So why would I act for the defence?When I was first asked, I was given all kinds of assurances that the accused was innocent even though the police had seized his computer and found hundreds of images and had evidence that he had chatted online with an underage girl.I explained that I would examine the images of the hard disk that the police forensic team had prepared and I would examine the evidence submitted by the girl’s mother and then make my decision as to what assistance I would provide.At first it was extremely challenging to perform my examination. The police would not release a copy of the disk image, and rather insisted that I use their computer equipment using their software at their premises.I tried working in a tiny windowless room at one of the precincts on their laptop running their software - a copy of Encase on a Windows machine. Yuk. Severely limiting. Not only that the officer entered the room every 5 minutes to ‘chat’ and I would stop what I was doing, and turn the laptop away from him.What a joke. They claimed that I could not be in possession of the image as that would be a crime. Uh.. no it wouldn’t. The act specifically allows possession.Section 163.(6) No person shall be convicted of an offence under this section if the act that is alleged to constitute the offence(a) has a legitimate purpose related to the administration of justice or to science, medicine, education or art; and(b) does not pose an undue risk of harm to persons under the age of eighteen years.The defence lawyer was able to win a motion allowing me proper access to the evidence and I was given copies of the drive image to examine using my own tools and software. However the forensic team Sgt told me that he disagreed with the ruling and could have me arrested if I was ‘caught’ with the evidence.I knew it to be bs, but for quite some some time while working on the case I kept a copy of that section of the criminal code in my car and in my office.Since the girl’s mother has presented evidence of what she purported to be logs of an online chat I requested an image of her hard drive as well. The police refused as that they claimed would create a hardship for the victim.Hardship - Huh?I testified in a motion that since she was out of the country, she was in the U.S., that the police in that state could assist if require and all that really needed to be done, if both the Crown and the defence agreed, was to take the machine to a local computer shop and ask them to install a new drive of the same size and copy the contents across so they could continue to use their computer. Then to put the original disk in a box and ship it to the good Sgt of the Toronto Police along with a signed statement from the technician that he did that without making any deliberate changes to the original contents.The judge was pretty agreeable to that but the crown argued against it. I testified that it was the best evidence but I was prepared to offer my assessment of the printed logs and my assessment of the transcript of the mother’s testimony.The judge ended hearing only my assessment of that. No copy of the victim’s disk was ever obtained, nor required.In the end, I had the image of the accused’s computer and photocopies of the victim’s log and the transcript of the mother’s testimony.Let’s start with the ‘log’. It was doctored. It was not a real log from IRC. It certainly looked like one, but there were inconsistencies from what an actual log produced by the IRC client she was using and what was presented. Moreover, she ended up referring to a different conversation log in her testimony, one that had time stamps. The one originally submitted to NCMEC had no timestamp. That was a setting in that software. On or off. Moreover in the testimony she and the girl testified that they had never chatted with the accused before that conversation, yet..At the start of the log there was a line item..“nickname of the accused” is online.That meant that the user of that IRC client had created an alert to notify them when the accused came online in IRC. Interesting.I proposed to the court that a more likely scenario was that the mother had set a trap for the accused. Set the alert so she would know he when he was online, enter into a chat with him, and then fabricate a conversation.edit added: this gave the mother the IP address and a date and time when he was online. Subsequent warrant and examination of the accused’s ISP’s records identified him as the user of that IP address at the time.To demonstrate, I fabricated a fictitious log for the court involving an online chat between Hamlet and Horatio. With time stamps.I read Hamlet in open court. How cool is that?It had also been presented into evidence that the mother worked for a local ISP and had taken some computer forensic courses.I testified that I could not theorize motive for a deception other than perhaps some prior online argument of some unknown nature but that the mother certainly had method and opportunity to deceive.The judge asked me what I would look for if I had access to the mother’s hard drive. I explained how a filing system works and how logs are created with sequential allocations to a file entry and that I would expect to find only one version of a legitimate log, even if copies were made. But I would expect to find multiple versions of this log since I believe it to be true that it was fabricatedThe Crown eventually in his own statements referred to “the less than compelling evidence of the mother”, but the Crown still had the huge amount of irrefutable evidence of the possession charge.Now.. what about those hundreds of child pornography images?Yes, they existed. There were two sets.One set existed in a download directory for IRC. Virtually all were deleted. The ones that weren’t were quite new to the directory. I examined the IRC configuration and found that the accused’s IRC would auto-accept sent files from anyone.This guy’s machine had a huge number of images and files of all description in that directory and it appeared that he would go in maybe once a week and delete everything he did not want and move off what he did.No child pornography images were moved to other directories and the vast majority had already been deleted. I theorized that the ones that were not deleted simply had not been reviewed yet; and moreover the files that were deleted would have become unretrievable over the natural course of operating the computer.Now then, the other set.These were all in the browser cache, and they were virtually all thumbnail images. Hundreds of them. But..When I examined the raw browser history logs I found an interesting timeline.The accused was searching for different music genres for download. Several times during a one session he followed links that appeared to be for downloads of music but were for porn. Porn of every type imaginable.Several of these pages had large numbers of thumbnails. What was interesting is the time spent on the pages before the user attempted to go to another site or page. Seconds.It was also interesting that several of the pages caused new browser windows to open with more porn.In total, there was a 15 minute period on one day when all of the images that the Crown submitted as evidence were downloaded into the cache of the accused’s browser. Moreover it was doubtful that the accused even realized the full extent of the images since as I showed the court that one had to scroll down on the pages to see the thumbnails as across the top were simply more ads for more sites.I also testified that over the natural course of operating the computer these thumbnails would have been deleted by the browser and would have never been retrievable by the user.The judge had more questions for me in his attempt to understand the situation more clearly. The defence lawyer sat back and was feeling pretty good.The Crown and the good Sgt sat there clicking their pens for quite some time.The Crown ended up asking the court for a stay of prosecution in exchange for an undertaking by the accused to promise not to engage in chats with underage girls for the purposes of exploitation.This could have had a terrible ending for the accused. If he could not afford the professional fees that I charged, or could not afford a decent lawyer he would have been found guilty or he would have just plead guilty.A follow up, I saw that Sgt a few days later and he told me he was still positive that the accused was guilty and that I helped a guilty man go free. I asked him if he had any other evidence except that which I showed was all bs, and he said no, but he knew he was guilty. Guilty of what I wondered aloud.Sorry for any typos - written on my phone.

I had a girlfriend when I was in 10th standard.I don't know if it was love, infatuation or obsession but we were into each other and had been dating for about an year.So she moved to a new place with her parents which was barely 300 meters from my residence.Initially I was happy but my happiness was not long lived. A guy (Read - Jerk) used to live in the same building. He and one of his friend started stalking her.For the first few weeks it was just stalking and cat calling. I thought my gf would handle it on her own and there is no need of my interference. The fact that I was a fattu (coward) back then was also a factor of not interfering myself in this matter.But weeks passed and her complaints started growing. She was not particularly scared but was embarrassed by their behaviours. She couldn't tell her parents as they threatened her that they will tell them about our relationship.So being a wannabe alpha male I stepped up.One day when the guys were on their bikes in the parking lot of the building, I went up to them and told them to back off. I told them that I would do anything to protect her. If they stalked or cat called her again, I will break their 206 bones and then I stormed off on my cute hero maestro.Here comes the catch, they called me next day to meet them at the same parking lot. I thought maybe they wanted to apologize to me or her and I would become a hero in front of my gf. Little did I knew, there were 6 guys waiting for me.But I have played alpha male before, so backing off was off the table this time.I went upto them and askedKyun bulaya hai? Chaud dikha ra hai?Translation : Why have you called me?He said and I quoteTeri haddian todni hain beta aaajTranslation : Going to break your bones son.In that moment I thought I was screwed.I became shit scared. I wanted to say sorry and run in the opposite direction. All my life I had been a good student. Studious one. Never indulged in anything other that which includes parents, marks or food. This situation was a nightmare for me but what came out of my mouth was probably the most badass thing I have ever saidTum log 6 ho aur main sirf ek. Maaar to maine hi khani hai. Lekin ek baat yaad rakhna, agar maroge to jaan se mar dena qki agar main zinda bach gaya to ek ek ko ghar mein ghus k maarungaTranslation : You are 6 and I am alone. I will definitely be beaten up but if you go that way don't leave me alive. Because if I stayed alive, I will beat every one of you even in your home.I couldn't believe the words that came out of my mouth.And what happened next?They took me seriously, got scared and ran away?WrongThey beat me up black and blue. I couldn't even stand a chance. And the worst part? I was beaten up by only three guys. Other three were just standing there and laughing their ass off.When I regained my sense, I called one of my friend to pick my sorry ass and take me back to home.Lessons learned that day will remain with me forever.

Twice, in fact. ( Two different SOs, very long ago ).When I turned 21 I had an official girlfriend I had dated for some time and even discussed marriage with.I was doing my thing, and she was attending college classes. She mentioned studying after class with “this guy.” It went on later that he was one of a couple college friends, and he invited her to a lumberjack competition he was in; naturally, she took me along because it would be “so fun!”When I met him I felt the immediate vibe of competition, and I don't mean logging, but I actually didn't recognize at the time that was the vibe. Today, clearly I have lived enough to know all kinds of gut feelings one should hear and heed.In any case, once and only once, I asked her… “this study partner. Is he after you?”She said “of course not. I love you!” And that was all it took for naive young me at the time. Blind faith is for fools.A few months later, I showed up at her home unannounced, and about the same time, so did the dude, in his restored muscle car. Then I saw she was seated close to him, and he was dropping her off and she had that “busted” look on her face. They sat for a time, as I awkwardly waited on the porch. And then she came out to talk to me. He just stood by his car.Then and there, she told me she was “seeing” him.What transpired is unimportant, I thankfully moved on quickly. Turns out she had been “seeing" him over a year.That was over 35 years ago. They got married, had 1 child, and then a couple months ago out of the blue, I get this weird middle of the night email. She wrote to inform me he had died a few months earlier. As though I should know. Just an announcement. I am not going to read between any lines. It was just …Odd.Then there was the magical sprite.I met her at 30; she was in college and it was infatuation at first sight. Wow. Turns out she had just broken up with a guy and moved to around the corner from me. Introduced by a friend, we were an insane whirlwind. Tornado. Bam.There was something about the guy she broke up with though (I think it was her professor) that lurked, almost unspoken. She was in a running club and would still bump into him. She wouldn't talk about it.I asked if it affected us. She just smiled and swat my butt. That was not an answer, obviously.I had a hunch based on her odd hours, surprise visits and something else I couldn't quite name, yet felt.So when I left her apartment one night at her frantic insistence she had things to do, I waited across the street in the shadows ( I know, both creepy and cinematic at once. Whatever).I could clearly see her apartment upstairs. From my periphery, I saw an older man approach, cross the street, walk up the stairs. Moments later, she walked to the door, let him in, shut the blinds, turned out the light. Then the bedroom light went on and just like a movie, shadows embraced and fell to the bed.I fell out of infatuation just as fast as I walked home.Turns out when she broke up with the dude, she moved across the street from him.Crazy is as crazy does.Moral: TRUST YOUR GUT.