In a move that could help speed up prosecution of notoriously slow criminal cases, the Cook County state’s attorney’s office will more comprehensively store and track digital evidence, officials said.
Reporters found that one of the biggest roadblocks comes during discovery, the very first phase of trial preparation, when prosecutors must gather up all potential evidence and share it with defense attorneys.
The Tribune analysis showed prosecutors can take years to complete discovery, as various police reports, lab tests, 911 recordings, officer videos and other records are sent to them in dribs and drabs. Technology used by the county and by local police has long lagged behind the private sector, and attorneys have frequently complained they waste time attempting to get video files to work on unfamiliar software or outdated hardware.Saniie told the Tribune that prosecutors get digital files from more than 100 municipalities, many of which use wildly different systems.
Neither of their offices has responded to questions posed in the past week about what, if anything, they plan to do to lessen delays.
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