# data[].attributes.body
Digital forensics has evolved hand-in-hand with technology. The more technology the world has gained the more types of digital evidence forensics has gained. I think that in 2020 digital forensics is a valuable resource to use because of how advanced technology actually is. It is valuable because it can provide more evidence that people would not be able to uncover without technology. Of course there are obstacles such as forgery when dealing with it. But it is a more efficient way of finding, collecting, and presenting evidence in forensics.

# data[].attributes.body
In 2012, Niroula and Garcia are ready to stand trial. Garcia chooses to represent himself in court.   The prosecution team hired a digital forensics researcher named Jonathan Zdiarski. The prosceution had evidence from Garcia's phone which included text messages to Niroula and Lambert. Garcia claimed that these messages were not real and not substantial enough to convict him. He also claimed the phone was mishandled by police. Garcia was caught recording his trial on his laptop in court. The recordings were taken and packaged away for more evidence. Forensic researcher Zrdriarski was able to not only prove Garcia's claim was false, he recovered even more undiscovered text messages between Garcia and Niroula that detailed the murder of Lambert. Both Niroula and Garcia were charged with second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. In 2016, the court of appeals sided with the two. As of 2020 the two are waiting for a retrial.

# data[].attributes.headline
Case Study: Clifford Lambert (Background information)

# data[].attributes.subject
Case Study: Clifford Lambert (Background information)

# data[].attributes.body
Clifford Lambert was a 74 year old art dealer. He was mainly located in the Florida, Miami area, but owned homes in California too.At the time of his disappearance he was single and looking for a male companion.  On Dec 4, 2008 a friend of Mr. Lambert's had received a voice mail from Clifford. The voicemail ended with Clifford asking for a call back. He called Lambert back but to his surprise, never got a reply. He waited three days, and on December 7th, 2008 he reported Lambert's vanishing.  Prosecutors learned of a meeting between Daniel Garcia and Lambert from earlier in April of that year. They had met through an online dating website and Garcia had flown to California to see Lambert. Garcia sent Niroula Lambert's number and Niroula called Lambert posing as an attorney telling Lambert he ahd inherited valuable art work. The two took money from Lambert's account and flew back to where they were staying in Burbank. One year later police caught Bustamante at Lambert's house taking a truck load of  art work. While in his holding cell he tells his cellmate of how he planned to kill Lambert, and his cell mate told the authorities. Police learn of another suspect, Russell Manning, an art dealer who helped the men steal Lambert's work. It was not until 2009 when Kashual Niroula, David Repogle, Russel Manning and Daniel Garcia were arrested. A year later in 2010, police decided to interview Craig McCarthy. McCarthy agrees to work with them and admits he played the part as the hit man and stabbed Mr. Lambert. He described how he stabbed Mr. Lambert in his kitchen and was able to lead investigators to the body.  He takes his plea deal and was sentenced to 25 years in prison for voluntary manslaughter. Later that year Manning was charged with fraud and was sentenced to 5 years in prison. In 2011, Bustamante, and Repogle went to trial and were convicted of second-degree murder and given a life sentence with no chance of gaining parole.

# data[].attributes.body
Daniel Garcia claimed that there was not enough evidence to support the fact that he committed these crimes and murdered Clifford Lambert. He also claimed that police had forged text messages between him and Niroula from his phone. The prosecution team including forensic researcher, Jonathan Zdiarski, was able to not only disprove Garcia's claim, he was able to uncover even more text messages from Garcia's phone in which the murder of Clifford Lambert was planned and layed out.

# data[].attributes.body
Clifford Lambert was a very well-known art dealer in the L.A. area. The suspects were apart of an identity theft group. Looking to gain money from Lambert and other wealthy people in California.

# data[].attributes.body
The men were charged with forging legal attorney papers, removing hundreds of thousands of dollars from Lambert's bank account, breaking and entering into his house, stealing thousands of dollars worth of Clifford's art work and selling it for one-third of it's original price. The suspects were later found with Lambert's house keys and credit cards, and were suspected of killing Lambert.

# data[].attributes.body
Clifford Lambert was reported missing Dec 7, 2008. The crime occurred in Palm Springs, California.

# data[].attributes.body
The following suspects for the Clifford Lambert case are: Kashaul Niroula, David Replogle, Daniel Garcia, Craig McCarthy, and Miguel Bustamante.

# data[].attributes.body
Digital evidence can be presented to the court by the following: smartphones/ cell phones, hard drives and flash drives, any kind of search history from the internet, text messages, internet messages, anything kept in the digital cloud drive, credit card history, child pornography.

# data[].attributes.body
Encryption is a very common type of forgery used in digital forensics. Encryption is the process of changing digital data by mixing/disorganizing data into a certain order/code that only the author could understand.

# data[].attributes.body
*Save he evidence in question
*Take photos of the evidence (minimum of nine pictures, 3 different angles)
*take screenshots of the evidence
*Write down the date, time, and any other info about the evidence.

# data[].attributes.body
Chain of custody specifies, how evidence is collected, any kind of transference, analyzing the evidence, every single person who was in contact with the evidence, date, and time the evidence was collected.This includes: audio and video recordings, images, and anything saved on any kind of drive that can be plugged into a device.  Chain of custody is a very vital part of the trial process, it protects the evidence from any possible tampering or harm that could occur.

# data[].attributes.body
When dealing withe digital devices there will always be technical difficulties/issues. Others include: Privacy purposes, encryption (forged documents). Different types of formatting.

# data[].attributes.body
Digital Forensics is an area of forensic science that involves finding and collecting material in digital devices. Such as smartphones, computers, tablets, etc.