Case Timeline Software for Criminal Defense

Every Discovery File, Cited to the Exact Second

Evidence Copilot turns your discovery dump — bodycam, jail calls, police reports, 911 audio — into timestamped, citable transcripts so you can build the timeline and cross-exam without scrubbing footage at midnight.

Discovery Review Is Eating Your Practice Alive

• The Discovery Dump Has No Bottom — Thousands of Pages and Growing Hours of Bodycam — A single felony case can arrive as a dump of police reports, bodycam video, dashcam footage, 911 audio, jail calls, and scanned supplemental reports — often thousands of pages and dozens of media files with filenames like X13qrt9__x3455. Managing vast volumes of digital video evidence is now a top challenge for attorneys, and video discovery keeps growing while your hours don't. On a flat-fee or court-appointed case, every hour scrubbing bodycam or re-reading a police report looking for the discrepancy between the narrative and the footage is unpaid margin erosion.
• Caseloads That Force Triage: 286 Hours Needed, 150 Cases Allowed — The RAND National Public Defense Workload Study found high-severity felony cases require an average of 286 hours for life-without-parole cases and 248 hours for murder cases — yet the 1973 NAC standards still permit public defenders to carry up to 150 felony cases or 400 misdemeanors per year. The Rhode Island public defender system needed 136 attorneys per its workload study but had only 49. When caseload triage is forced on you, statement-vs-call conflicts and report-vs-bodycam inconsistencies get missed — and that's where suppression issues and impeachment material live.
• Discovery Review Is the Biggest Time Drain — But AI Tools Cut It by 63% — Defense firms consistently report discovery review as their single largest time sink, and flat-fee arrangements make every review hour pure loss. The problem isn't just volume — it's that the material is unsearchable: bodycam video with no transcript, scanned police reports with no text layer, jail-call audio nobody has time to listen to. Attorneys using AI-powered tools cut discovery review time by 63% (Thomson Reuters), and 83% of legal professionals respond faster to clients with AI research capabilities — speed that matters at first-appearance and plea-negotiation stages.

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

• Get Through Discovery Faster — Get through discovery faster: upload the full dump — bodycam, interrogation footage, 911 and jail calls, scanned police reports — and get timestamped, diarized transcripts plus OCR'd text from every scanned PDF and photo exhibit. Then full-text search across everything: 'Miranda,' 'consent,' the complainant's name — every hit cites the exact video second or PDF page. One click generates a grounded case brief with evidence inventory, key moments, inconsistencies, and follow-ups, so you know what's in the case before the preliminary hearing.
• Impeach With the Source Open — Impeach with the source open: auto-signals compare every new file against earlier evidence in the case and surface candidate conflicts — police report vs. bodycam, witness statement vs. jail-call audio — before you think to ask. Cross-exam drafts come from those signals with both sides' quotes, every suggested question tied to a cited source, no credibility conclusions. Playbooks like Suppression Motion Prep sweep for consent, search scope, stop duration, K-9, and Miranda issues and draft a motion outline with both sides quoted and cited; the Miranda Timeline builds the chronological custodial-interrogation timeline.
• Defensible Workflow, Published Pricing — A defensible workflow at published pricing: every AI output is marked AI-generated and pending human review, originals are immutable, and every redaction is a new derived, audited file — frame-accurate video redaction, word-level audio muting, PDF and image redaction for discovery turnover. Solo is $39/user/mo with 15 media-processing hours, Firm $99 with 60, PD Office $750/attorney/yr with 100 — no feature tiers, no sales wall, and overage hard-capped at 3x included hours so a heavy intake month can't overbill you.

What's included

• Timestamped, diarized transcription with word-level timestamps and one-click speaker renaming that propagates across every segment — so bodycam and jail-call transcripts are actually usable.
• OCR turns scanned police reports and photo evidence — receipts, exhibits, screenshots — into searchable, citable text, with bounding boxes kept for redaction.
• The AI evidence agent does full-text search, reads transcript windows, grabs video frames, extracts clips, and writes notes, timeline events, and tasks — each answer carrying clickable citations.
• Agent playbooks including Suppression Motion Prep and Miranda Timeline draft grounded outlines with both sides quoted and cited — suggested work product for attorney review, never legal conclusions.
• Manual frame-accurate redaction — drag a rectangle to black or blur video, mute the exact spoken words in audio, redact images and PDFs — with AI-suggested regions filed as review cards, never auto-applied.
• Exhibit pack exports bundle video clips, still frames, and quoted excerpts with a MANIFEST.md citation index, gated by per-member export permission.

Quick wins

• Use the per-case inbound email address to forward discovery attachments straight from the DA's email — [email protected] creates the case from the subject line and ingests every attachment automatically.
• Link bodycam, dashcam, and interview-room footage of one event to a single master clock with multi-camera sync — synced playback with an interleaved transcript, with auto-sync proposals reported with match evidence and never auto-applied.

How it works

1. Upload the dump — Drag in bodycam, interrogation footage, jail calls, 911 audio, police reports and scans — up to 2 GB per file by web, or just email attachments to your case's inbound address.
2. Search, cite, and flag — Get diarized transcripts with word-level timestamps and OCR'd document text. Ask the AI evidence agent questions; every answer cites the exact second or page. Auto-signals surface inconsistencies for your review.
3. Build the case — Draft the timeline, cross-exam notes, suppression motion outline, and exhibit list. Export the exhibit pack with clips, still frames, and a MANIFEST.md citation index — gated by per-member export permission.

How Evidence Copilot <span class="gradient">Grounds Every Answer</span> in Your Actual Evidence

• Every AI answer carries a citation that seeks the exact video moment or PDF page — you verify, then you decide.
• Auto-signals compare each new file against earlier evidence in the case, surfacing candidate inconsistencies like report-vs-bodycam conflicts as unreviewed items.
• Originals are immutable and every action is audited — redactions create new derived files and never touch the source.

Why we're different

• Every AI answer cites the exact second of video or page of PDF.
• Defense-only by design — never sold to prosecution or law enforcement.
• Auto-signals surface report-vs-bodycam inconsistencies before you ask.
• Frame-accurate video, audio, image, and PDF redaction with full audit trail.
• Multi-camera sync links bodycam, dashcam, and interview room to one master clock.
• MCP server lets you query cases from Claude Desktop — read-only and audited.
• Published pricing with no feature tiers and overage hard-capped at 3x.
• Originals are immutable; every redaction is a new derived, audited file.

Published pricing, no sales wall — every plan includes the full workspace. Built defense-only, with every AI output marked for human review and originals kept immutable.

What clients say

The citations are the whole thing. When the agent flags that the officer's report timeline doesn't match the bodycam, it links me to the exact second — I watch it myself before anything goes in a motion to suppress. Nothing gets argued that I haven't seen with my own eyes.

— Marcus Delgado

We run the Suppression Motion Prep playbook and get both sides quoted and cited — consent, stop duration, the Miranda sweep. It drafts the outline; I still write the argument and make every call. That's the right division of labor, and my law clerks review everything before it leaves the office.

— Renee Whitfield

Jail calls and 911 audio used to sit unlistened at our caseload. Now they're transcribed, diarized, and searchable, and the inconsistency signals flag statement-versus-call conflicts I would have missed. For a public defender office, that's the difference between triage and diligence.

— Tom Okafor

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.