Discussion: Benjamin Crump's Forensic Examination Adds to Controversy Over Nolan Wells Phone Records
The cited sources give this account: Benjamin Crump's forensic examination of Nolan Wells' phone records suggested deletions, leading to a clarification from the DA who had to ask for the records. The DA's statement addressed Crump's misleading interpretation, stating no one accessed the phone after Wells' last use, before it was returned to his parents.
The cited sources give this account: Benjamin Crump's forensic examination added to the controversy, suggesting deletions on the phone records, which the DA had to ask for. The DA's statement clarified the grand jury report, showing no one accessed the phone after Wells' last use, before it was returned to his parents.
The grand jury ultimately concluded there was no foul play, stating the boys did nothing and that Nolan drowned after drinking. Benjamin Crump's forensic examination added to the controversy, suggesting deletions on the phone records, which the DA had to ask for.
Benjamin Crump's interpretation of phone deletions was misleading. The DA had no access to the phone, as it was with Nolan Wells's friends. Crump suggested deletions were from the phone's owner, but the DA clarified they were from other Snapchat users, not the phone's owner, addressing Crump's misleading interpretation of the phone's contents.
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Benjamin Crump's forensic examination added to the controversy, suggesting deletions on the phone records, which the DA had to ask for.
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The DA's statement clarified the grand jury report, showing no one accessed the phone after Wells' last use, before it was returned to his parents.
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Benjamin Crump will not accept the conclusion of the grand jury at all.
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The DA didn't have the cell phone. What happened was the boys who went to Horn Island with Nolan, his buddies had the cell phone on their boat.
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Ben Crump has the phone. And so he came out and was like, the phone records are incomplete.
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The DA had to get up in the middle of the night from the look of it last night and put together a statement of her own to try to correct the record because the hustler
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about people on horn island can be racist. That's his friends discussing that on snap.
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It sounds like that they were... right after Nolan went missing. And they didn't know what had happened to Nolan.
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He's trying to get these kids array. He's been trying to get these kids arrested for months with zero evidence.
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The grand jury report references the cell phone extraction reports that our office received.
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The information they provided in their press conference and what they provided to my office prior to the grand jury report was that no one physically accessed Nolan's cell phone after his last known use and before his parents received it.
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The chat did not stop just because Nolan was no longer participating in it.
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The grand jury ultimately concluded there was no foul play, stating the boys did nothing and that Nolan drowned after drinking.
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The boys who went to Horn Island with Nolan, his buddies had the cell phone on their boat.
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The boat went back to the mainland with his boat with his phone on it. And the boys later returned that phone to the family.
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The grand jury report references the cell phone extraction reports that our office received. 30-hour digital download that Mr. Garrett, his forensic witness, discussed, was not provided to the state as Mr. Garrett claimed.
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The chat did not stop just because Nolan was no longer participating in it. And Snapchat has automated deletions on many of its messaging services.
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His provocative, oh, you know, F you, why don't you come for me texts? They don't exist.
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The DA would have found them that the DA got all of the phones of the boys.
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Benjamin Crump's interpretation of phone deletions was misleading.
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Crump suggested deletions were from the phone's owner, but the DA clarified they were from other Snapchat users, not the phone's owner.
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Snapchat has automated deletions on many of its messaging services.
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The DA's career depends on her doing a thorough investigation and figuring out what actually happened in a case as high profile as this.
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The phone wasn't on my client's boat that my client never had possession of it.
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No one accessed the phone.
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There's no water in the stomach. There's no water in the lungs. And there's no water in the throat.
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Benjamin Krump is found to determine these boys had nothing, something to do with it. Nothing.
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The DA had no access to the phone, as it was with Nolan Wells's friends.
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