Cell Phone Alibi Rings True
A cell phone alibi has helped win freedom for Eric Wright, accused of murdering a longtime rival.
A Brooklyn judge dismissed the charges yesterday at the request of prosecutors, the New York Times (reg. req.) reports.
Wright told his lawyer he was in New Jersey at the time the victim was fatally shot in Brooklyn—and he was sure of it, because he heard the gunshots while speaking on the cell phone with a friend near the scene.
The lawyer, George A. Farkas, said he thought his client’s story was implausible, but he obtained the cell phone records nonetheless. They confirmed Wright’s version of events. Wright also took a polygraph test and passed.
Cell phone records can help prosecutors too, ABAJournal.com noted in a prior post. In the case of Paul Cortez, prosecutors helped gain a conviction with evidence that he called the stripper he was dating more than a dozen times in the two hours before her murder. The calls were made from locations that got closer and closer to her home.
