Category Archives: Spoliation

British Teacher Canned Over Mile-High Sex Allegations

A disciplinary panel for Britain’s National College of Teaching Leadership (NCTL) decided last week to indefinitely ban Eleanor Wilson, a 28-year-old physics teacher at an unnamed school in Bristol, from teaching in English classrooms. The panel’s decision came after hearing testimony from a student, “Pupil A,” that on a July 2015 flight home from a…

“Social Media in the Legal Profession: Pitfalls and Landmines” [Interview]

A few years ago, I had the privilege of working with Attorney Craig Denney on a computer forensics case in Reno, Nevada. Attorney Craig has since moved on to become an Administrative Law Judge at the Social Security Administration. That’s in addition to his long-standing work as a judge for the 150th Legal Operations Detachment-Army…

MA Teen Admits Using Snapchat to Record Sexual Assault of Minor

Eighteen months ago, on September 3, 2014, a young woman in Saugus, MA saw four disturbing videos in her Snapchat app. The videos were sent to her by a high school friend, Timothy Cyckowski, and they depicted two people sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl in a wooded area. The young woman could hear Cyckowski laughing…

Spoliation: When Good Evidence Goes Bad [Lecture]

2010-07-20 Spoliation: When Good Evidence Goes Bad from Frederick Lane Last presented at the eCampus 2010 conference at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH on July 21, 2010. This 15-minute lecture was designed as part of a panel presentation on security and legal issues for college and university IT professionals. It is designed as a general overview…