Facebook to the rescue in robbery case
p2pnet news view | Crime:- New York police arrested Rodney Bradford, 19, and held him for 13 days, accusing him of breaking into a Brooklyn residence, armed with a gun.
If he’d been convicted, he could have been jailed for 25 years.
But he’s now free —- thanks to a Facebook entry, made when the robbery took place.
Bradford`s arrest was for “the mugging at gunpoint of Jeremy Dunklebarger and Rolando Perez-Lorenzo at 11:50 a.m. on Oct. 17,” according to Robert Reuland, his lawyer, says the New York Times.
Bradford, aready facing charges in a previous robbery, “contended he was in Harlem at the time of the Oct. 17 robbery — a claim supported by Mr. Bradford`s father, Rodney Bradford Sr., and his stepmother, Ernestine Bradford, Mr. Reuland said,” the story states, going on:
“Mr. Reuland acknowledged that, in principle, anyone who knew Mr. Bradford`s user name and password could have typed the Facebook update,” but, This implies a level of criminal genius that you would not expect from a young boy like this; he is not Dr. Evil, he’s quoted as saying, “adding the Facebook entry was just icing on the cake, since his client had “other witnesses who provided an alibi”.
Brooklyn district attorney office spokesman Jonah Bruno e acknowledged that Facebook was crucial to the charges` being dropped, adds the NYT.
New York Times - I`m Innocent. Just Check My Status on Facebook, November 11, 2009
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November 13th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
The first historic use of the “Where’s My Pancakes?” defense.