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Bodycam and Discovery Review with Citations Down to the Exact Second

Evidence Copilot turns your discovery dump — bodycam, interrogation footage, jail calls, police reports — into timestamped, diarized transcripts and grounded answers where every AI answer links back to the exact video moment or PDF page.

Why Discovery Review Is Eating Your Defense Practice Alive

  • Discovery Dumps You Can't Get Through — A single felony case can arrive as 40+ hours of bodycam footage, interrogation video, jail calls, 911 audio, and hundreds of pages of scanned police reports — all while you're juggling dozens of other cases. Strict deadlines like a motion to suppress or a preliminary hearing leave no room for slow review, and a flat-fee arrangement means every extra hour of manual report-reading comes straight out of your margin.
  • Hours Lost Hunting for the Quote — You remember the officer said something on the bodycam that contradicts his report — but finding the exact second means scrubbing hours of footage with no timestamps, no speaker labels, and no searchable text layer on the scanned report. A report-vs-bodycam discrepancy that should be a five-minute cross-exam question becomes a weekend project, and without a citation you can't even put it in front of the court.
  • Burnout From High-Stakes Caseloads — Public defenders and solo practitioners routinely manage 50+ active cases at once — arraignments, plea negotiations, probation revocation hearings, and suppression motions all stacking on the same calendar. Every hour spent on manual transcription and page-by-page report reading is an hour not spent on client communication or strategy, and it's a direct path to burnout in a profession already stretched past recommended caseload standards.

Why Criminal-Defense Attorneys <span class="gradient">Choose Evidence Copilot</span>

  • Find the Impeachment Moment in Minutes — Find the impeachment moment in minutes: full-text search across every transcript and document, with word-level timestamps and speaker diarization, and citations that jump straight to the exact second of bodycam footage or the exact page of the police report. Report-vs-bodycam discrepancies become cross-exam material — not weekend projects.
  • Ethics-Safe by Design — Ethics-safe by design: every AI output is marked AI-generated and pending human review, and the product never makes legal conclusions. Cross-exam drafts are suggested questions tied to quoted sources — saved as attorney-review notes, not conclusions. Auto-signals surface candidate inconsistencies (report vs bodycam, statement vs jail call) before anyone asks.
  • Published Pricing, No Sales Wall — Published pricing, no sales wall: Solo at $39/user/mo, Firm at $99/user/mo, and a PD Office tier at $750/attorney/yr — every plan includes the full workspace with no feature tiers, and overage is hard-capped at 3x included hours so runaway intake can't overbill you.

What's included

  • Timestamped, diarized transcription: Deepgram Nova with word-level timestamps and one-click speaker renaming that propagates across every segment — so 'Officer Daniels' is Officer Daniels everywhere.
  • AI evidence agent with clickable citations: ask a question, get an answer that seeks the exact video moment, grabs frames, extracts clips, and can email transcript excerpts or write timeline events.
  • Auto-signals on ingest: every new file is compared against earlier evidence, surfacing candidate inconsistencies like report vs bodycam or statement vs jail-call audio as unreviewed signals.
  • Agent playbooks for defense motions: Suppression Motion Prep sweeps consent, search scope, stop duration, K-9, and Miranda issues into a motion outline with both sides quoted and cited; Miranda Timeline and Exhibit List Builder included.
  • Frame-accurate redaction that never touches originals: manual video, audio, image, and PDF redaction with AI-suggested regions (faces, PII screens, license plates) filed as suggestion cards marked 'AI-suggested — needs review.'
  • Multi-camera sync with match evidence: link bodycam, dashcam, and interview-room footage to one master clock with interleaved transcripts, with auto-sync proposals reported with evidence like '31 word matches, ±0.2 s spread.'

Quick wins

  • Use the Suppression Motion Prep playbook to sweep consent, search scope, stop duration, K-9, and Miranda issues — it drafts a motion outline with both sides quoted and cited to the exact source moment.
  • Run discovery PDFs through OCR so scanned police reports with no text layer become searchable, citable text you can quote in cross-exam prep.

How it works

  1. Upload the Discovery Dump — Drag in bodycam, interrogation footage, jail calls, 911 audio, police reports, and scanned documents up to 2 GB — by web upload or by emailing attachments to your per-case inbound address.
  2. Get Transcripts and Signals — Deepgram Nova transcription with speaker diarization and word-level timestamps, OCR on every scanned page, and auto-signals flagging inconsistencies against earlier evidence in the case.
  3. Ask, Cite, and Export — Ask the AI evidence agent anything, get answers with clickable citations into the exact video second, draft cross-exam questions and suppression outlines, then export an exhibit pack with a MANIFEST.md citation index.

How Evidence Copilot Turns Raw Evidence Into <span class="gradient">Cited, Reviewable Answers</span>

  • Every AI answer carries a citation that seeks the exact video moment or PDF page it came from — no guessing where a quote came from
  • Auto-signals compare every new file against earlier evidence in the case, surfacing report-vs-bodycam and statement-vs-call-audio inconsistencies before anyone asks
  • One-click case briefs, cross-exam drafts, and agent playbooks like Suppression Motion Prep and Miranda Timeline — all with both sides quoted and cited

Why we're different

  • Every AI answer cites the exact video second or PDF page it came from
  • Defense-only by design — never sold to prosecution or law enforcement
  • Originals are immutable; every redaction is a new derived, audited file
  • No defense-side competitor offers an MCP integration for Claude Desktop
  • Auto-signals surface report-vs-bodycam inconsistencies before you ask
  • Cross-exam drafts quote both sides — never make credibility conclusions
  • Published pricing with no feature tiers and hard-capped overage billing
  • Two-way email intake creates cases and answers questions by email

Built for US criminal-defense teams — solo defenders, firms, and public-defender offices — with published pricing, no feature tiers, and every AI answer marked for human review.

What clients say

The citations are the whole thing. When the agent flagged that the officer's report said one thing about the stop and the bodycam said another, it linked to the exact second on the footage and the exact page of the report. That's a motion to suppress, prepped — and I still made the call on what to argue.

— Marcus Delgado

We run everything through the per-case email intake now — investigators forward bodycam and jail calls straight in, transcripts come back diarized with speaker labels, and the Miranda Timeline playbook built a custodial-interrogation chronology in an afternoon that used to take my clerk two days.

— Renee Okafor

Our office was quoted four figures per attorney elsewhere. At $750/attorney/yr with the full workspace included — transcripts, OCR on the scanned reports, redaction that keeps originals immutable — this was the easiest budget conversation I've had with our administrator.

— Daniel Whitfield

Frequently asked questions

Can the AI really cite the exact second of bodycam footage in an answer?

Yes. The AI evidence agent answers questions with clickable citations that seek the exact video moment or PDF page the answer came from. Transcripts carry word-level timestamps from Deepgram Nova with speaker diarization, so every quote is anchored to a precise, verifiable source you can check yourself.

How does Evidence Copilot handle report-versus-bodycam inconsistencies?

On ingest, every new file is automatically compared against earlier evidence in the case. Candidate inconsistencies — like a police report narrative that conflicts with the bodycam, or a statement that conflicts with jail-call audio — surface as unreviewed review signals before anyone asks. From a signal, you can draft cross-exam questions with both sides' quotes, every question tied to a cited source.

Is using AI for evidence review ethical under my state's professional responsibility rules?

Evidence Copilot is built for that concern: every AI output is marked AI-generated and pending human review, the product never makes legal conclusions, and cross-exam drafts are suggested questions only — no credibility conclusions. Originals are immutable and every action is audited, so you maintain a clear record of what the AI suggested versus what you decided.

How fast can we get set up, and how does evidence get into the system?

Setup is same-day: create a case, upload files up to 2 GB by web upload, or email attachments to [email protected] to create a case from the subject line. Each case gets its own inbound email address, so investigators and clerks can forward bodycam, 911 audio, and scanned reports as evidence — and even ask questions by email with citations returned in the reply.

How does this compare to JusticeText or a DIY Whisper + NotebookLM stack?

JusticeText runs about $1,200/attorney/yr — our PD Office tier at $750/attorney/yr undercuts it by roughly and both are transcription-first tools. A DIY Whisper stack breaks at case scale: no diarization QC, no citations, no redaction, and no audit trail. Evidence Copilot is a full grounded workspace — transcripts, OCR, the citing AI agent, auto-signals, playbooks, redaction, and exhibit-pack exports — with published pricing and no feature tiers.

Book a 20-minute walkthrough at evidencecopilot.com/book, or start on the Solo plan at $39/user/mo at evidencecopilot.com/signup.

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