Stay updated with breaking news from Grant Fredricks. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
"This jury needs to hear from me, and hear the truth," Aaron Dean said as he took the stand Monday. Dean admitted to doing "bad police work" during intense cross-examination from prosecutors.
There to be some record of that activity and we don't have any here. >> here's why fredricks would have expected the motion activated system to record during that time. during that hour and five minutes, several students are seen walking into and out of the old gym from the surveillance camera just outside the gym door. we count seven male students, and three of them walk into the gym within three minutes prior to kendrick johnson walking in. >> i can't tell you whether there was no information recorded in the digital video system or whether somebody made an error and didn't capture it or whet...
Mistake. >> according to lowndes counties sheriff's office, the asked for a copy of the surveillance video for the entire wing of the school with the old gym for the last 48 hours. five days later, that i.t. worker provided a hard drive. and according to the incident report, the detective verified it contained the requested surveillance video. >> the investigators' response is to akwiert entire digital video recording system and then have their staff define what the want to obtain. you don't want somebody who might be party to the responsibility to make the decision as to what the provide the ...
Was not altered or edited by anyone within the lowndes county sheriff's office. >> we believe it somebody corrupted this video because it just does not make sense to us. >> reporter: so who's right? to find out we took our copy of the video provided to cnn by the attorney for the sheriff's office to an expert. >> we brought the hard drive more than 2300 miles here to spokane, washington, to deliver it to the leading expert in forensic video analysis, grant fredricks. he's a former police officer, a consultant for the u.s. department of justice, and a contract instructor at the fbi academy in q...
Hundreds of hours of surveillance from lowndes high school. although he does not believe the jumpy video is the result of editing, he says there are some other major problems. >> those files are not original files. they're not something that an investigator should rely on for the truth of the video. they've been altered in a number of ways, primarily in its quality, and likely in dropped information, information lost. there are also a number of fielts that are corrupted because they've not been processed correctly and they're not playable. so i can't say why the were done that way, but the wer...