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It is a part of forensic science that involves evidence found on digital devices, usually relating to crimes committed digitally.

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What Are Challenges Associated With Digital Forensics?

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What Are Challenges Associated With Digital Forensics?

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Some challenges associated with digital forensics include improper handling of evidence can lead to evidence being altered, evidence can be encrypted, evidence can be hidden in storage places, and lastly evidence can use covert channels to hide their crimes and even break into devices with evidence against them.

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The chain of custody for digital forensics is to span from the point of data collection, to the examination of data, analysis of data, reporting of data, and the time it is presented in court to avoid any suggestion of compromise that may be made in court.

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Data is copied completely from the originally and remains untouched through the investigation. Evidence can also be preserved on things like USB or any other storage devices to hold evidence. Evidence can also be preserved inside of a box that does not allow for any channel to access it wirelessly without anyone knowing.

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Encryption is the process by which someone uses normal or plain text to hide data that cannot be accessed unless deciphered. Encryption typically requires a specific key or keys to open and allow for access to hidden data.

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What Are The Ways That Digital Evidence May Be Presented?

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What Are The Ways That Digital Evidence May Be Presented?

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One of the ways that digital evidence may be presented in court is an expert report. An expert report outlines what the investigators found. Digital evidence may also be shown as e-mails, instant message history, spreadsheets, internet browser history, and digital audio or video files. There are many other ways that digital evidence may be presented but these are some of the main pieces of evidence used in cases.

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The crime took place sometime on Sunday, July 13 2014. The location that the crime occurred in was Fairhaven, Massachusetts. Conrad Roy gassed himself in his pick-up truck in a K-mart parking lot.

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Michelle Carter was arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter after the suicide of Conrad Roy. She was charged with recklessly causing the suicide.

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She had argued with him before on his indecision to commit suicide and she had constantly made his fears of suicide seem like he shouldn't worry about them and not to worry about his family and how it would affect them.

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Digital Evidence Used Against Suspect(s)

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Digital Evidence Used Against Suspect(s)

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Evidence used against Michelle were the text messages she shared with Conrad on her phone and how she encouraged him to kill himself. Another piece of digital evidence that was used was the phone call that they both shared before Conrad committed suicide.

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On February 4, 2015, Carter was indicted and arraigned in New Bedford Juvenile Court in Taunton Massachusetts. She was charged with by the grand jury with recklessly assisting Conrad's suicide. She was 17 and the court decided to indict her as a youthful offender which meant that she could be tried as an adult. On Monday, June 5, 2017, the day before the trial, Carter used her right to have a jury trial. The case was then heard by Judge Lawrence Moniz in the Bristol County Juvenile Court of Massachusetts. The people defending Carter were Joseph P. Cataldo and Cory Madera. Cataldo asked for a summary dismal arguing that Carter's text were protected by the first amendment and that Roy had already been thinking about suicide without the encouragement from Carter. This motion was declined by the judge. On June 16, 2017, Judge Lawrence Moniz found Carter guilty of involuntary manslaughter. He had stated in his ruling that Carter's phone calls with Roy as he was gassing himself in his pick-up truck had caused him to go through with killing himself. Roy had stopped himself from killing himself but Carter's reckless encouragement caused him to return to his truck and kill himself. Carter remained free of bail. Carter's lawyers asked Judge Moniz to stay on the sentence until all of the Massachusetts court of appeals options were exhausted which Judge Moniz granted as long as she stayed away from the Roy family. On February 6, 2019, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that carter had criminal intent when she had encouraged Roy to kill himself so her involuntary manslaughter conviction stood and her sentencing was enforced. Carter's lawyers had petitioned to the Supreme Court of the United States in July 2019 but declined to hear the case in January 2020.

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Judge Lawrence Moniz sentenced Carter to a two and a half years term, 15 months to serve in Bristol County House of Corrections, the rest of the term was suspended with fives years of probation following.

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Over the past 30 years, technology has improved and become more involved in our daily lives making digital forensics a key tool in analyzing and evaluating evidence that can be found digitally. Digital forensics has become a key factor in many cases that have now been solved because of digital evidence recovered and evaluated. Without digital forensics, many of the cases that are currently going in the world would not be solved and many pieces of evidence would go unnoticed without it. Digital forensics has become essential to solving or at the least providing evidence that can be used in courts to help give a conviction whether someone is guilty or not.