Module Learning Outcomes for this assignment:

1. Evaluate and interpret evidence and generate resulting reports that are coherent and compliant with law and sympathetic to social and ethical standards.

2. Critically evaluate case studies and analyse evidence gathered from simulated realistic incidents.

Scenario

Ms. Conlay, a sales representative of CC Terminals has complained that Mr. Lawrence, another sales representative of CC Terminals, has been harassing her. She has indicated Mr. Lawrence has made several romantic advances, attempting to contact her both at work and during off-hours, and that his emails have been getting increasingly aggressive. When Ms. Conlay allegedly saw Mr. Lawrence show up while meeting a friend at an out-of-the-way coffee-shop, she contacted security the following day.

The first responder team in CC Terminals investigated the computer device found during an off-hours search of Mr. Lawrence's cubical and analysed its contents. The first responder team recovered several documents and computer programs from the USB storage device which further indicate Mr. Lawrence's advances, aggression, and illegal activities.

Based on their findings, apparently Mr. Lawrence typed his emails to Ms. Conlay in Microsoft Word and saved them as Word documents on this USB device before sending the emails. They found three letters apparently to Ms. Conlay. One asked her out to dinner. The second was a response to her apparently telling him to “get lost” and then offered her a coffee-date instead. The third, written just after the alleged coffee-shop incident, indicates his unhappiness about her having coffee with someone else instead of him, and ends with what could be considered a veiled threat: “I heard rumors about a “bad batch” of coffee; I hope you don't get any...” Each document was written from Mr. Lawrence's computer or one configured