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Article: Courts give text messages much more than a trial run; Analyst says delete button does not eliminate data
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- June 13, 2004
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DENVER - A few hours after basketball star Kobe Bryant had sex
with a Vail-area hotel worker last summer, the woman exchanged cell
phone text messages with a former boyfriend and someone else.
What's in those messages could help determine whether the sex was
consensual or whether Bryant is guilty of rape as charged. The judge
himself said the content may be "highly relevant" to the case.
That the judge could order the woman's cell phone company to
produce the messages so long after they were sent shouldn't surprise
anyone, analysts say.
Texters beware. Like e-mail and Internet instant messages, text
messages tend to be saved on servers.