IBIS Corporation was recently instrumental in two acquittals of persons charged with murder.
The “evidence” the Police had to charge in each case was:
A. The police theory of the motive, (without evidence), and,
B. A dark and fuzzy video of a person who couldn’t be clearly seen, but who the police believed “had to be” the accused. While a supposed motive alone is not evidence, the videotape is, if it can be shown to be unaltered, it clearly identifies the accused, and there is a connection between the actions of the accused in the video and the murder. In each video, the Police alleged that the video showed that the accused was the sole person with the victim when the murder took place.
IBIS video enhancement, from a true copy of each of the videos, using industry standard programmes and techniques, clearly demonstrated that the accused could not be identified and there were more individuals at, or very close to the scene at the time the police alleged the murder happened.
To prevent innocent people being charged with crimes they did not commit, we urge all Law Enforcement and Prosecutors, that when all the evidence they have is a video, they must preserve a forensic copy of the video so that the metadata, etc., can be listed, and then technically enhance a copy, to see what the video actually shows, before making a life altering decision about a person they suspect.