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According to several legal experts, a 19-year-old in New York City may be the first person to have successfully used Facebook to provide an alibi. When Rodney Bradford was charged with mugging two males at gunpoint in Brooklyn on a Saturday in October, it didn't help that he was already facing a previous robbery indictment. And although Bradford's father and stepmother backed up his claim that at the time of the alleged mugging, he was in Harlem at his father's apartment, witnesses identified him in a lineup, says his lawyer Robert Reuland...
...alibi defense is as old as judges and juries. But there are a lot of new ways to back up an alibi now that people are documenting their daily lives with tweets, pokes and photo tags. "Digital information can sometimes be more easily authenticated, because of date and time stamps provided on computer servers," says John Browning, a Dallas-based attorney who studies social networking...
Counter’s ex-wife told police that he had attempted to push his then-17-year-old daughter out of a moving car on Dec. 18, 2006, according to the complaint. Counter was arrested and charged that day with domestic assault and battery but was later acquitted when the girl told the court that he had not tried to push her from...
...Brown may have benefited from being underestimated. As a 22-year-old law student, Brown posed nude for a Cosmopolitan magazine "America's Sexiest Man" photo spread that was resurrected and became an Internet sensation during the campaign. But he is also a 30-year veteran of the Massachusetts Army National Guard, and his service figured prominently in his campaign. He won his first election as a local tax assessor in 1992 and was elected to the state senate in 2004. His politics tend to be standard conservative on issues like taxes and guns, but he supports Roe v. Wade...
...Obviously, it's not good for the DPJ. They can't say that they're different from the old crooks," says Robert Dujarric, director of Temple University's Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies. Business as usual is not what the public expects from an underdog party that just won the people's mandate on a platform of regime change. Dujarric, however, says that Ozawa is widely understood to be an "old-fashioned" politician. "If you want Mr. Clean, you're not going to date Ozawa," he says. "Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses. That's his weakness...