The story may be slanted to make the reader feel the person has been set up by the police, but we'll see what the court says on October 31. Pete
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/3 ... -on-oct-31
Criminal Court to rule on Surapak case on Oct 31
Published: 22/09/2012 at 03:05 AM
Newspaper section: News
The Criminal Court will rule on the lese majeste case of computer programmer Surapak Phuchaisaeng on Oct 31.
The court finished its hearing yesterday, with the defendant testifying as a defence witness himself.
Mr Surapak, 41, said he owned the computer software developer Viva-Solution which provided services to both government agencies and major corporations.
He denied an association with the email and Facebook page alleged by the police as being used to display messages deemed insulting to the monarchy.
He told the court he was denied a right to a lawyer when police arrested him at his Bangkok apartment on Sept 2 last year.
He said Pol Col Pisit Paoin, deputy commander from the Technology Crime Suppression Division, told him to write down the suspected email address and Facebook page on a piece of paper.
Mr Surapak said he then signed the paper without knowing what it would be used for.
He denied the document proved his authorship of the email and ownership of the Facebook page. He also denied all charges.
Mr Surapak argued that the temporary files which the police entered as evidence proving an association between the email and Facebook page and his two computers were not credible.
Normally, the date and time of the last access and the modified one should be the same but the numbers in the police paper did not match, Mr Surapak said.
He also pointed to a Microsoft report entered as evidence by the prosecutor which showed an attempted link to his computer through Wifi on Sept 7, five days after he was arrested.
"This means somebody was activating my computer while I was under police custody but before the computers were handed over to police computer forensic experts," Mr Surapak said.
Another defence witness, Kittipong Piyawanno, a lecturer at the Royal Thai Navy Academy's Engineering Department, argued that police evidence supposedly showing log files of the suspected Facebook page appeared incomplete and irregular.
Mr Kittipong, 32, said if a Facebook use is to appear in the cache file, it must be in the form of PHP, not HTML as shown in the evidence. He said the source post provided by the police looked like it was created manually.
He said the police evidence also showed that the computer was activated twice while it was not in the possession of the defendant.
Since the computer forensic police did not appear to follow the appropriate protocol in its handling of the exhibit computers, the resulting evidence is not credible, he said.
