DI_Law_Toni

Steps for completing this assignment:
 * 1) Review the images on the following link and read the descriptions. Notice how digital imaging allows for a great deal of editing. [|CNET Pictures that lie]
 * 2) Read the article found at the link below. Write a paragraph stating whether you believe the use of image enhancing applications should be allowed in obtaining/enhancing evidence. Be careful to explain your point clearly and support your thoughts. You will be graded on your use of ideas, conventions, organization, and sentence fluency.[|Digital Photography Poses Thorny Issues for Justice System]
 * 3) Post your paragraph on your personal page.
 * 4) Review the paragraphs of at least two other students and post your comments using the discussion tab.

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When it comes to digital photography in the courtroom I say it has no place. There are so many digital image enhancing programs to choose from anymore that all photos can be changed, but especially digital pictures. You can change the appearance of the height, weight, ethnicity, eye and hair color of a person, and one can make a simple shadowed line that can change a fingerprint. However if a person uses a normal camera, like for example a simple 35 mm. there's negatives that can be turned in to evidence as well. There's been so many hoaxes using digital pictures in magazines, and books, that even smoke from a building can be made darker and more critical looking causing worry, and stress all for the entertainment of a the public eye. Really, when it comes to digital photography, it has no place in the courtroom, there's too many possibilites to alter the picture's composition, subject, foreground, and background.