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The turning point in the Hofstra case

Quick ReadFive minutes and 58 seconds of grainy video footage turned the Hofstra case around.

Hempstead, NY - Sept. 16, 2009: The campus

Photo credit: Newsday/Ken Sawchuk | Hempstead, NY - Sept. 16, 2009: The campus at Hofstra Univeristy after dark. (Newsday/ Ken Sawchuk.)

The police were looking for him.

Then the man Nassau police said they'd identified as the fifth suspect in an alleged gang rape at Hofstra University shared a crucial piece of evidence with the family of another suspect.

A cell-phone video. It was just 5 minutes and 58 seconds of grainy footage from a public men's bathroom in a college dormitory, according to a defense attorney for one...

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