30·
18 hours agoThat’s one of the main points in the podcast Serial. It opens with a question like, “do you remember where you were on Tuesday at 4:45 five weeks ago?”
The person accused of the crime was a highschool student on the 90s before smart phones. When they said they were at track practice after school, it then became “can you prove where you were?”
That actually played a part in it as well. Ultimately the kid was convicted because of cell phone location data. Part of the controversy was that an expert for the telephone company didn’t testify at the time that the data was inaccurate.