Brady List Research Workflow for Defense Teams

How Defense Teams Run a Brady List Research Workflow Without Drowning in Discovery

Evidence Copilot turns your discovery dump — bodycam, jail calls, police reports, scanned docs — into a grounded, citable evidence workspace for Brady/Giglio review, suppression prep, and cross-exam.

Why Brady and Giglio Review Keeps Slipping Through the Cracks

• Caseloads force triage — and report-vs-bodycam inconsistencies go unexamined — When your caseload forces triage, discovery review is the first thing that loses. RAND's workload study found average time per criminal case ranges from 13.5 hours for probation violations up to 286 hours for life-without-parole cases — and every hour you don't spend scrubbing the police report against the bodycam is an hour an officer inconsistency, a Miranda timing problem, or a consent-search scope issue goes unexamined. Excessive caseloads prevent attorneys from giving each case appropriate attention, per NACDL, and Brady and Giglio obligations get shortchanged first.
• The 1973 caseload standard never anticipated digital discovery — The 1973 NAC standard of 150 felony cases per year doesn't differentiate among case types and doesn't account for the discovery dump now arriving in every case: bodycam and dashcam video, 911 audio, jail calls, scanned PDFs with no text layer. Current standards for public defender caseloads are widely considered too high, leaving media-heavy cases under-reviewed — a DWI with four bodycam files takes fundamentally different review time than a 1973-era paper file ever did.
• Chronic underfunding turns review gaps into systemic failure — Chronic underfunding and fragmented oversight in indigent defense lead to systemic failures — including wrongful convictions and prolonged detention. When every hour is triaged, the mechanical work of discovery review — diarizing interrogation footage, OCR-ing scanned reports, syncing multi-camera bodycam files — crowds out the legal work: motion to suppress drafting, cross-exam prep, Brady review. Underfunded offices don't fail because attorneys stop caring; they fail because review time runs out.

Why Defense Teams <span class="gradient">Choose Evidence Copilot</span>

• Reclaim hours lost to media review — Compress the mechanical part of discovery review so your hours go to judgment, not scrubbing timelines. Upload the full discovery dump — bodycam, 911 audio, jail calls, scanned police reports — and get word-level diarized transcripts, OCR'd document text, and auto-signals that surface candidate report-vs-bodycam inconsistencies before you even ask. The AI evidence agent answers questions with clickable citations into the exact second of video or page of the PDF, and the one-click case brief gives you an overview, evidence inventory, key moments, inconsistencies, and follow-ups.
• Nothing auto-applied, everything audited — Built for defenders bound by ethics rules: nothing auto-applied, everything audited. AI-suggested redaction regions and multi-camera sync proposals file as suggestion cards marked 'AI-suggested — needs review' — never auto-applied. Frame-accurate video redaction, audio muted at the exact spoken words, and PDF redaction each produce a new derived file while originals stay immutable. Every AI output is marked AI-generated and pending human review, and the product never makes legal conclusions.
• Published pricing, no sales wall — Published pricing, no sales wall: Solo $39/user/mo with 15 media-processing hours, Firm $99/user/mo with 60 hours and priority queue, PD Office $750/attorney/yr with 100 hours. Every plan includes the full workspace — no feature tiers — and overage is metered and hard-capped at 3x included hours so runaway intake cannot overbill.

What's included

• Timestamped, diarized transcripts with word-level timestamps and one-click speaker renaming that propagates across every segment — no more 'OFFICER 1' forever.
• OCR turns scanned police reports with no text layer and photo evidence — receipts, exhibits, screenshots — into searchable, citable text with bounding boxes kept for redaction.
• The AI evidence agent does full-text search across transcripts and documents, grabs video frames, extracts clips, and writes notes, timeline events, and tasks — every answer carries a citation that seeks the exact moment.
• Agent playbooks: Suppression Motion Prep sweeps consent, search scope, stop duration, K-9, and Miranda issues and drafts a motion outline with both sides quoted and cited; Miranda Timeline builds a chronological custodial-interrogation timeline; Exhibit List Builder ties a draft exhibit list to real files.
• Redaction for video, audio, image, and PDF — drag a rectangle to black or blur video, pick the exact spoken words to mute audio — with AI-suggested regions filed as review cards, never auto-applied.
• Exports produce an exhibit pack (zip of clips, still frames, quoted excerpts plus a MANIFEST.md citation index) and a review memo, gated by per-member export permission.

Quick wins

• Use the per-case inbound email address: forward the discovery dump straight from the DA's email as attachments, and every bodycam file, 911 call, and scanned PDF ingests into the right case without manual upload.
• Run the Miranda Timeline playbook on any custodial-interrogation case before the suppression hearing — a chronological timeline with both sides quoted and cited beats a hand-built one every time.

How it works

1. Dump your discovery in — Upload video, audio, images, and PDFs up to 2 GB by web upload or email attachment — each case gets its own inbound email address, so [email protected] can even create a new case from a subject line and ingest every attachment.
2. Get grounded transcripts and signals — Deepgram Nova transcription with speaker diarization and word-level timestamps, OCR for scanned PDFs and photo evidence, and auto-signals flagging candidate inconsistencies across every new file against earlier evidence in the case.
3. Work the case from citations — Ask the AI evidence agent questions, review the case brief, draft cross-exam questions tied to quoted sources, run the Suppression Motion Prep or Miranda Timeline playbook, and export an exhibit pack with a MANIFEST.md citation index.

How Evidence Copilot <span class="gradient">Grounds Your Brady Workflow</span> in Citable Evidence

• Auto-signals on ingest surface candidate inconsistencies — report vs bodycam, statement vs jail call — before you even think to ask
• The AI evidence agent answers questions with clickable citations into the exact second of video or page of the PDF
• Cross-exam drafts tie every suggested question to a quoted source — no credibility conclusions, saved as attorney-review notes

Why we're different

• Every AI answer cites the exact video second or PDF page it came from
• Auto-signals surface report-vs-bodycam inconsistencies before you ask
• Cross-exam drafts quote both sides — never legal conclusions
• Frame-accurate redaction that never touches your originals
• Multi-camera sync with word-timing match evidence, never auto-applied
• Defense-only by design — no prosecutor or law-enforcement use cases
• MCP server lets you query cases from Claude Desktop, read-only and audited
• Published pricing with no feature tiers and hard-capped overage

Built for US criminal-defense teams — solo defenders, firms, investigators, and public-defender offices. Every AI answer cites the exact moment it came from; every output is marked for human review.

What clients say

The auto-signals caught a report-vs-bodycam inconsistency in a case I'd already skimmed twice — the kind of thing you miss at hour nine of a review day. Every question the agent answered came back with a citation to the exact second of footage, so I could verify it myself in seconds before it went anywhere near a cross-exam outline.

— Marcus Delgado

Our office runs heavy media cases through the PD Office plan. The Suppression Motion Prep playbook swept consent, search scope, stop duration, and Miranda and drafted a motion outline with both sides quoted and cited. The Miranda Timeline saved my law clerk a full day of scrubbing interrogation footage by hand.

— Renee Whitfield

Redaction used to be the bottleneck on discovery turnover. Now it's frame-accurate video redaction, audio muted at the exact spoken words, originals untouched, everything audited — and the AI-suggested face and license-plate regions just file as cards I review before anything is applied.

— Tom Okafor

Frequently asked questions

Book a 20-minute walkthrough at evidencecopilot.com/book — or start on the Solo plan at evidencecopilot.com/signup and run your next discovery dump through it.