Thanks to some quick work at Seagate Recovery Services, a convicted rapist will get the punishment he deserves after almost wriggling out of a harsher sentence because the most important piece of evidence was believed lost forever.
Forty-year-old Michael Barnes is currently behind bars in a Santa Cruz County, Calif., jail awaiting sentencing. He faces more than 20 years in prison for raping three women and kidnapping one of them.
In January of 2008, Barnes went to a local bar and allegedly kidnapped and raped a woman he met while there. After the victim reported the crime, she was interviewed by a deputy sheriff who used a video recorder to document the testimony. Later the video data was transferred to a DVD.
The deputy filmed a successful interview, but he filed a rambling, error-filled, conflicting report that raised a lot of questions with the court.

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