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Nanny Sues Hidden-Camera Manufacturer
http://www.comcast.net ^ | 6 14 06 | Associated Press

Posted on 06/14/2006 6:53:25 AM PDT by freepatriot32

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A nanny who was arrested after police viewed hidden camera video recordings that appeared to show her shaking a 5-month-old baby is suing the recording system's manufacturer.

Claudia Muro, 32, alleges that distorted camera footage wrongfully led to her arrest and imprisonment. She was arrested in October 2003 and spent two years awaiting trial before prosecutors dropped the case because of concerns about the tape.

The footage was broadcast on television around the country.

The lawsuit was filed against Boca Raton-based Tyco Fire & Security, according to a report in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages.

Broward County prosecutors in March said experts they had consulted concluded the footage was not reliable as evidence because its videotape was time-lapsed, meaning that the movements that appeared to be rough shaking might not have been as violent as they appeared.

Robert McKee, Muro's civil attorney, told the Sun-Sentinel that the footage was misleading and caused his client to spend a long time in jail. He said there should be a warning to the consumer about the images.

Messages left by The Associated Press early Wednesday for McKee and Allison Gilman, Muro's criminal defense attorney, were not immediately returned.

Nor was a message left for the communications department of Tyco. A company official had told the Sun-Sentinel it does not discuss pending litigation.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2manylawyers; bocaraton; camera; florida; floriduh; fortlauderdale; hidden; hiddencam; lawsuit; manufacturer; nanny; nannycam; sues; tortreform; tortreformnow; tyco
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To: samtheman

Cases like this could easily be dismissed, but the people who know how to do this are lawyers, who don't make any money by doing that.


21 posted on 06/14/2006 8:55:49 AM PDT by norraad ("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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To: mkjessup

It was proven that the infant did not suffer any injury or truma.

The problem was that the time lapse aspect of the footage turned the picture of a nanny playing with the baby into a picture of someone abusing the baby.

The nanny has a case, but not against the camera manufacturer. I think the couples attorney (or prosecuter), who should have done a better job of checking it out before filing with the court.

This has been a miscarrage of justice thus far.


22 posted on 06/14/2006 9:05:32 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (God has blessed Republicans with really stupid enemies.)
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To: robertpaulsen
in reality, she was gently lowering the child to the floor, raising the child, then gently lowering the child to the floor, over and over.

Ah! I gotcha--it was just a fun game she and the little tot were playing, and that dang nanny cam malfunctioned and made it look bad.

And when we saw the kid's neck whipping back and forth, in reality, the child was just performing several advanced yoga moves designed to over extend the neck. Gotcha!

Dang technology! ;-)

23 posted on 06/14/2006 9:12:47 AM PDT by RepoGirl ("Bobby, if you weren't my son... I'd hug you...")
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To: Havok

"Oh jeeze, I definitely have to start a "Stupidity out of Florida" ping list."

Here's one for you, I posted it on another thread earlier today:

"Early this morning I was listening to KRLD radio in Dallas, they were discussing the Mav's game with another station in florida. They were talking about how the Florida people were all dressed in white. The florida DJ (a woman) made the comment, "we were dressed in white because we wanted to look like the Ku Klux Klan so the Mav's would feel at home." What the hell was that supposed to mean????"


24 posted on 06/14/2006 9:15:56 AM PDT by tuffydoodle (Shut up voices, or I'll poke you with a Q-Tip again.)
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To: BelegStrongbow
Is this suggesting that the broadcast was not the source of the tort? How can the manufacturer be held responsible for what the buyer did with the property?

What you need to know is that the system didn't record at a real-time rate of 30 frames per second, but at something like 5 frames a second. So everything looked exagerrated and outrageously violent.

I saw a re-enactment of this specific case on a Court TV show a couple of months ago. They showed somebody in a split-screen of 5 frames per second and 30 frames per second doing simple stuff like picking up a doll and putting it in a crib, and it showed exactly how false this "evidence" was.

Yes, I say the camera/recorder manufacturer is solely responsible for her imprisonment.

25 posted on 06/14/2006 9:40:41 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: freepatriot32
For a while I would of welcomed any lawsuit against X10 cameras and their annoying popups.

Heck, I would of welcomed a nuclear strike on their headquarters.

26 posted on 06/14/2006 9:44:20 AM PDT by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
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To: tuffydoodle; Joe Brower

Maybe the Texans can wear pink tutus to make the South Florida fruitcakes feel at home.


27 posted on 06/14/2006 9:45:11 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: freepatriot32

I bet the nanny is pretty shook up!


28 posted on 06/14/2006 9:47:23 AM PDT by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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To: All

Ok found a link for a basis of my earlier post:

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The only new development was that an actual expert pointed out that time lapse video had been snapped- off at between four and seven images a second, compared to 60 images on a television-quality tape, creating a herky-jerky illusion.

''There was no assault,'' said Grant Fredericks, a former police officer and a noted instructor in forensic video analysis. ``It was so obvious to me and obvious to any forensic video analyst who looked at the tape.''

Indeed, an expert hired by the Broward state attorney's office came to the same conclusion.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/columnists/fred_grimm/14147087.htm


29 posted on 06/14/2006 9:49:47 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: BelegStrongbow

"How can the manufacturer be held responsible for what the buyer did with the property? "

Same argument applies to firearms... or anything for that matter...


30 posted on 06/14/2006 9:51:45 AM PDT by MD_Willington_1976
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To: stainlessbanner

LMAO! Too bad the Texas DJ's didn't think of that one.


31 posted on 06/14/2006 10:12:06 AM PDT by tuffydoodle (Shut up voices, or I'll poke you with a Q-Tip again.)
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To: Havok
I definitely have to start a "Stupidity out of Florida" ping list.

That would be the busiest ping list on FR.
32 posted on 06/14/2006 11:09:06 AM PDT by BJClinton (There's plenty of room for all God's creatures, right next to the mashed potatoes.)
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To: tuffydoodle

The Texas DJ should have told the Florida DJ they can wear white to the wake after the Mavericks bury the Heat and win the NBA championship!


33 posted on 06/14/2006 12:21:11 PM PDT by TexanByBirth (Tired of high gas prices, then kick an environmentalist!)
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To: Havok

Just the other day there was some judge on the west side of the state who decided to have his two presenting attorneys settle their case using rock-paper-scissors.


34 posted on 06/14/2006 6:32:22 PM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL ( **Hunter-Tancredo-Weldon-Hayworth 4 President** I get it, Glenn.)
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