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