Miranda Timeline Building for Suppression Motions

Build a Miranda Timeline That Survives Cross-Examination

Evidence Copilot turns your discovery dump — bodycam, interrogation footage, jail calls, police reports — into a chronological custodial-interrogation timeline with every fact cited to the exact second or page.

The Discovery Review Problem Behind Every Suppression Motion

• Your Miranda timeline lives in your head, not in a document — Reconstructing when custody began, when questioning started, and whether the Miranda warning actually preceded interrogation means scrubbing hours of interrogation footage, re-reading the police report, and cross-checking the 911 call — all by hand, with no tool built to line them up. Discovery review is the bottleneck in every criminal defense case: bodycam video, jail calls, diarized interview recordings, and scanned reports arrive as a dump with no text layer and no timestamps you can cite. By the time the chronology exists, it's in your head the night before the suppression hearing — not in a document the judge or your co-counsel can verify.
• Report-vs-footage inconsistencies surface too late — The police report says one thing, the bodycam says another — but you catch it the night before the motion hearing, when there's no time to build the impeachment. The gap between what officers wrote and what the recording shows is where suppression arguments live or die: stop duration, consent to search, search scope, K-9 deployment timing. Manual cross-referencing across a 40-hour discovery dump guarantees you miss some of those gaps. Meanwhile, defense teams are stuck with tools built for the other side — Axon Evidence is slow, has no analysis, and no defense workflow — while the DIY stack (local Whisper plus NotebookLM) breaks at case scale: no diarization QC, no citations, no redaction, no audit trail.
• Defense teams are stuck with tools built for prosecutors — Platforms like Axon Evidence are built for the other side — slow players, no analysis, no defense workflow. Meanwhile the DIY stack (local Whisper plus NotebookLM) breaks at case scale: no diarization QC, no citations, no redaction, no audit trail.

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

• Every citation seeks the exact moment — Every citation seeks the exact moment. When the judge asks where in the record it says the questioning started before the Miranda warning, you click the citation and the interrogation video seeks to the exact second — or the PDF jumps to the page. No scrubbing, no guesswork, no 'I'll get back to the court.' The Miranda Timeline playbook builds a chronological custodial-interrogation timeline with both sides quoted and cited, ready for the suppression hearing.
• Human review is the design, not an afterthought — Human review is the design, not an afterthought. Auto-signals on ingest compare every new file against earlier evidence in the case — report vs bodycam, statement vs jail call — and surface candidate inconsistencies as unreviewed signals before you even ask. Cross-exam drafts are suggested questions only, every question tied to a quoted source, with no credibility conclusions. The product never makes legal conclusions; your judgment stays in the driver's seat.
• Published pricing, no feature tiers — Published pricing, no feature tiers, no sales wall. Solo is $39/user/mo with 15 media-processing hours; Firm is $99/user/mo with 60 hours and priority queue; PD Office is $750/attorney/yr with 100 hours — undercutting JusticeText's ~$1,200/attorney/yr by roughly Every plan includes the full workspace — transcription with speaker diarization, OCR, redaction, the evidence agent — and overage is hard-capped at 3x included hours so runaway intake cannot overbill.

What's included

• Miranda Timeline playbook: generates a chronological custodial-interrogation timeline from your actual evidence, with manual and AI-suggested events on the case timeline.
• Suppression Motion Prep playbook: sweeps consent, search-scope, stop-duration, K-9, and Miranda issues and drafts a motion outline with both sides quoted and cited.
• Deepgram Nova transcription with speaker diarization and word-level timestamps — one-click speaker renaming propagates across every segment.
• Auto-signals on ingest: every new file is compared against earlier evidence, surfacing candidate inconsistencies (report vs bodycam, statement vs call audio) as unreviewed signals.
• Cross-exam drafts: suggested questions only, every question tied to a quoted source, saved as attorney-review notes — no credibility conclusions.
• Exhibit pack export: a zip of video clips, still frames, and quoted excerpts plus a MANIFEST.md citation index, gated by per-member export permission.

Quick wins

• Add a 'Report-vs-Bodycam Impeachment Cheat Sheet' section mapping the Suppression Motion Prep playbook (consent, search scope, stop duration, K-9, Miranda sweep) to the cross-exam drafts it generates — each question tied to a quoted, cited source.
• Show the intake workflow: email the discovery dump to your per-case address and bodycam, jail calls, 911 audio, and scanned reports land in the case with diarized transcripts and OCR'd text — no manual file naming or local Whisper setup.

How it works

1. Upload the discovery dump — Drag in bodycam, interrogation footage, 911 audio, jail calls, police reports, and scans — or email attachments to your per-case inbound address. Files up to 2 GB are transcribed with speaker diarization and word-level timestamps, and scanned PDFs are OCR'd into searchable text.
2. Run the Miranda Timeline playbook — The agent sweeps the evidence and drafts a chronological custodial-interrogation timeline. Auto-signals flag report-vs-bodycam and statement-vs-call inconsistencies; you review each one, rename speakers once, and rename across every segment.
3. Draft, cite, and file — Turn review signals into cross-exam drafts with both sides' quotes, run the Suppression Motion Prep playbook for a motion outline, and export the exhibit pack — video clips, still frames, quoted excerpts, and a MANIFEST.md citation index.

How Evidence Copilot <span class="gradient">Builds the Miranda Timeline</span> for Your Suppression Motion

• Miranda Timeline playbook: a chronological custodial-interrogation timeline built from your actual evidence — every event tied to a timestamped transcript or cited PDF page, never a legal conclusion.
• Auto-signals on ingest: every new file is compared against earlier evidence in the case, so report-vs-bodycam and statement-vs-jail-call inconsistencies surface as unreviewed signals before you think to ask.
• Cross-exam drafts from review signals: suggested questions with both sides' quotes, every question tied to a quoted source, saved as attorney-review notes — no credibility conclusions.

Why we're different

• Defense-only by design — never sold to prosecution or law enforcement.
• Every AI answer cites the exact second of video or page of PDF.
• Miranda Timeline playbook built specifically for custodial-interrogation chronology.
• Auto-signals surface report-vs-bodycam inconsistencies before you ask.
• Cross-exam drafts quote both sides; no credibility conclusions.
• Originals are immutable; every redaction creates a derived, audited file.
• No defense-side competitor offers an MCP integration for Claude.
• Published pricing with the full workspace on every plan — no feature tiers.

Built for US criminal-defense attorneys, law clerks, investigators, and public-defender offices — defense-only by design, with published pricing and no feature tiers.

What clients say

The Miranda Timeline playbook gave me a custodial-interrogation chronology with every event cited to the exact second of the interrogation footage. First time I've walked into a suppression hearing without scrubbing video the night before.

— Marcus Delgado

A report-vs-bodycam signal flagged an inconsistency I would have missed — the stop-duration the officer wrote didn't match the dashcam. The cross-exam draft had both sides' quotes, each tied to a source. It's a draft I still review, but a real head start.

— Priya Raghavan

The citations are the whole thing. When I ask the agent where custody began, it answers with a clickable citation that seeks the exact video moment. And the exhibit pack export with the MANIFEST.md citation index made filing painless.

— Tom Whitfield

Frequently asked questions

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