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Phones Part Of Zoo Probe

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: January 5, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO - The city attorney sought permission Friday to inspect the car and cell phones belonging to the two brothers who survived tiger attacks at the San Francisco Zoo, but the victims are balking, the attorney said.
Deputy City Attorney James Hannawalt sent a letter to the brothers' attorney, Mark Geragos, asking him to make sure they preserve any photographs or call logs that were on the phones before the Christmas Day mauling that claimed the life of 17-year-old Carlos Sousa.
San Francisco police have the phones, but the brothers, Kulbir and Paul Dhaliwal, have refused to authorize investigators to examine the contents, according to Hannawalt.

"Your clients refused to cooperate with this request; consequently, no one has yet examined this potentially critical evidence," he wrote.
Police officials previously have said that an empty vodka bottle was on the front seat of the car the three young men drove to the zoo last week.

Hannawalt proposed having evidence experts from his office and others hired by the brothers inspect the phones and the car together.

The Associated Press

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