BOSTON – The criminal trial of Peabody Police Lt. Edward Bettencourt resumed Tuesday morning in Suffolk Superior Court after taking a four-day recess due to an unfortunate death in the defendant’s family.The 55-year-old officer was indicted over a year ago on 21 counts of unauthorized access to a computer. He stands accused of accessing the confidential information of 20 fellow police officers and one Salem police officer while on duty at the station during the wee hours of Christmas morning in 2004. It is said that Bettencourt used that information to create accounts on the Massachusetts Human Resource Division’s Civil Service Exam Applicant Web site to look up test scores.If convicted on all counts, Bettencourt could face up to $21,000 and nearly two years in the house of correction.Three witnesses took to the stand Tuesday, including Sean Hughes of the Commonwealth Criminal History Systems Board, Paul Stewart of the Attorney General’s Criminal Bureau, and Peabody Police Detective Robert Faletra, who underwent questioning from both parties for nearly two hours.Faletra, the “in-house computer expert,” was the first witness to testify about surveillance photos, as well as the noticeable time differences found on those cameras and the times recorded on the dispatch log. Faletra said that the surveillance video timestamps were approximately an hour off due to daylight savings.Defense attorney Douglas Louison took that information and paired it with the fact that there were 14 different unidentified persons seen on the surveillance videos, none of which Faletra interviewed or followed up on, to argue his case that security at the police department in 2004 was not at its tightest. He also suggested that such great discrepancies with time can’t accurately place Bettencourt within the police station during the time of the crime.Hughes took the stand next after a short break and Prosecutor Kathleen Healy asked him to go over the technicalities of the LEAPS (Law Enforcement Agencies Processing System) program, which Bettencourt allegedly used to access confidential information. Hughes explained how a search could be quickly conducted, as well as how to create an account on the Civil Service Exam Applicant Web site.”It takes 3-15 seconds to run,” said Hughes, adding that it’s possible to run multiple searches at the same time. For prosecutors, that information means that Bettencourt could have very well done so in a rather short period of time without much notice taken.After hearing of the possible security breach at the Peabody Police Department over two years ago, Hughes was the man responsible for creating a list of searches and accounts created based on the information provided by the system’s server.Hughes testified to not being able to tell the court who, specifically, created the accounts, as there were no login mechanisms in place at the time.Stewart’s role in the case began when he was put in charge of investigating the surveillance cameras from the night Bettencourt allegedly committee the crime. His testimony was assisted with actual surveillance footage displayed across a large screen before the court.Several bits of information came from Stewart’s testimony, including the appearance of Det. Scott Richards at the station around midnight that Christmas, a night he was not scheduled to work, and another time discrepancy captured by a clock on a wall.Stewart said that he did not personally interview Richards as to why he was at the station that day, nor did he follow up on the unidentifiable man Richards arrived with. However, he said he believes Richards was there to simply pick up his paycheck, a truth Louison found hard to believe.Court will resume this morning at 9 a.m. Associate Justice Margaret Hinkle hinted toward a possible resolution as early as this Monday, depending on how far counsel moves the remaining of the week.