I have a technical question that might solve a legal matter.
About a year ago a man was caught taking pictures with a digital camera. He was underneath the bleachers during a high school basketball game. The assumption was that he was taking unusually angled shots of the girls in the stands, without their permission.
The man was caught by security and the police were called in to arrest the man. However, because he was using a digital camera he had erased everyting in the camera and no proof remained to convict him with. The best they were able to do was escort the man off of grounds.
My question is, were the images on the stick actually erased, or were the still recoverable?
Does a memory stick act like a hard disk where youonly erase an index to the data? Are there utilities that could have recovered the images?
