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These are accused of killing Arrel Bell in 2009 allegedly plotted to kill while chatting on social networking site MySpace, authorities said.
TRENTON — As defense lawyers in a murder case conspiracy fight to repeal taken evidence from the social networking site MySpace, those close to the case requires the landmark battle will be fought in an age of technology.
The State's case against four Bloods gang members are centered around the Group's alleged use of the popular online community hatched a plan to kill one of their own in 2009.
"It is the first time we have prosecuted a case like this," said Assistant Prosecutor Brian McCauley. "Essentially all of the evidence, with the exception of the assassination itself come from MySpace records".
Keith Williams, a five-star member of the Sex money murder set, and subjects Karim Sampson, John Murphy and Brandon Edwards charged anyone with conspiracy to commit murder and reprisals against a witness in the murder of 20-year-old Arrell Bell.
Bell, a member of the Sex money murder, was found shot to death in Stacey Park 1 may, 2009, and prosecutors say online instant messaging among defendants prove his homeboys conspired to kill him, because they trøde he was a snitch.
"If you look at the dates for the transmissions and timing of the murder and what they have to say in their messages, it is clear they plot a murder," said McCauley.
Those who follow social trends say, it was only a matter of time before the evidence made his way to center stage in a lawsuit gang.
Increase in popularity of sites MySpace, Facebook and Twitter are not lost on the rockers, who use increasingly on sites to recruit new members, the sorcerer for girls, disseminating information and brag about their criminal activities, he said.
"Most of the major players had MySpace pages," said Frank Clayton, a former Trenton police officer who recently retired as leader of the gang intelligence to the Mercer County Prosecutor. ' When you get access to them is a smorgasbord of information, "he said.
Clayton says investigators routinely monitor known motorcycle gang members and their affiliates in the search of gang intelligence online accounts. So when Bell turned died in Stacey Park, beaten detectives to his MySpace page to find people he may have had a beef with.
Search beyond what was available on the public pages, got a court order prosecutors more private information transmitted in the weeks before and after the murder, including instant messages among their suspects.
"We hit pay dirt," said McCauley.
In addition to the usual pictures of guys decked out in gang colors contamination with guns and throwing up gang hand signs, revealed MySpace pages online communications strengthen conditions defendants in a conspiracy to murder, he said.
"I think my mouth fell open," said McCauley. "Normally we are looking for information that will give us another avenue study. You do not believe that you will have a crime set out for you. "
McCauley Read in a previous court hearing, an online chat, which allegedly took place between Sampson and Williams the day before the Bells murder. He translated some of the gang lingo as he read.
Sampson: "Time for Bell go. Turn on a high level of laughter up. Tell not "Ski" we will do. "
Williams: "what we gonna do?"
Sampson: "if I had my ' wifey ' (gun) I would get it done. You got (expletive) so it upon you. "
The two then discussed Bells planned trip to New York, and decided how much time they had to act, said McCauley.
Sampson: "we have got 72 hours."
Williams: "Let us do it 48. Let us do it tonight. Let us walk in the Park ".
Defense lawyers for the four men are prepared to file proposals seek to bar online chat from introduced as evidence at trial.
Frank Gleason, representing the Sampson, raised the issue at a court hearing on the matter last week. He said the State did not believe the author of the records they have.
"There is no guarantee that everything on my mobile phone is my message. There is even more of a question, when you are talking about sites such as MySpace, "said Gleason. "The central issue is one of how the State can establish communication, actually did the person which the State considers made it."
Mark Fury, representing Williams, said, it is an interesting argument.
"If someone comes into the Office or at home, and sends a Facebook message from your Facebook account, you can be responsible for what they said?" he asked. "If you buy the State history, these children are a part of a gang. There must be an arbitrary number of people who have access to their computers. "
McCauley humiliated on the legal argument, says phone records be used routinely in court as evidence for the message.
"Do you want to argue that someone broke into your House and made calls from your House in the middle of the night?" he said. "IP addresses (computers used to send messages) was traced back to the defendant's home. Any leader to frame them should have not only hack their MySpace accounts but break into their homes to make it. "
Prosecutors, defense attorneys and police agreed use of online information as evidence is just a natural progression of crime investigations.
"Criminals are using new technology, like all the others are," said Joseph Juniak, acting Director of the Trenton Police Department. "We always try to stay one step ahead of them in our investigative techniques".
Clayton said experienced investigators shall actively seek to infiltrate Street criminals online activities.
"Things about rockers is they love to boast. They love to show, "said Clayton. "If you get to the sites, you can find out all kind of information."
Gain access to the pages, often not open to the public prosecutor's Office, will set the dummy profiles of people who would try to become online friends of the rockers.
"We want to create profiles, mainly girls, are smokin' hot guys are stupid and lecherous," said Clayton. "We used random images and composed their backgrounds. They would befriend rockers. "
Then investigators, often helped by college interns in Prosecutor's Office, will monitor the profiles every day, he said.
"Rockers would have pictures of themselves with guns, throwing up gang signs, with the other gang members are for parties," he said. "They want to post information about where the parties would be, as a promotion with whom in high schools or in the street."
Clayton, now working as a collaborator police for a computer company, predicted an increase in electronic evidence in criminal cases.
"Most people are not even talking on the phone anymore, it is all text messages, instant messages, social networks and it can all be captured," he said. "Electronic transmissions is everywhere".
If the evidence against the accused conspirators Bells permitted by legal proceedings, it would be a hard sell to nævninges, some of which may not be well-versed in computer technology or even the use of social networking sites?
McCauley says no.
' The technology is new, the survey technique is new but at the end of the day, it is the oldest crime in the book, murder, ' he says. "Juries understand murder".
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