Posted on 06/14/2006 6:53:25 AM PDT by freepatriot32
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.
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.
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! ;-)
"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????"
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.
Heck, I would of welcomed a nuclear strike on their headquarters.
Maybe the Texans can wear pink tutus to make the South Florida fruitcakes feel at home.
I bet the nanny is pretty shook up!
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
"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...
LMAO! Too bad the Texas DJ's didn't think of that one.
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!
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.
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