Police Officer’s Testimony of Surveillance Footage Was “Best Evidence” When the Surveillance Footage Could Not Be Produced for Trial

June 2, 2021 |

State v. Bayoumi Appellate Docket No.: A-163-20 Decided June 1, 2021 Submitted by New Jersey Criminal Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. In a recent unpublished opinion, the Appellate Division of New Jersey reviewed whether a police officer’s testimony of surveillance footage identifying defendant was appropriate “best evidence” when the surveillance footage could not be produced for trial. In…

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Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition to Police. Critics See Surveillance Risk.

May 24, 2018 |

Submitted  by New Jersey Criminal Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. By Nick Wingfield May 22, 2018 SEATTLE — In late 2016, Amazon introduced a new online service that could help identify faces and other objects in images, offering it to anyone at a low cost through its giant cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services. Not long after,…

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