Analyzing Evidence and Documents
A case is far from over once witnesses have been interviewed and reports submitted. There can be mountains of documents to review and analyze, and there are important decisions to make regarding how to proceed to trial (or mediation, arbitration, etc.). Our investigators can review documentary or electronic evidence at a fraction of the cost of an associate. A good example of our work assisting in the analysis of evidence in a complicated case was featured on Forensics:You Decide in a Baltimore murder investigation.
With analytical software, we can usually find connections in complicated financial or telephonic datasets that are otherwise difficult to detect. We will also assist in the preparation of demonstrative exhibits, and we will vet expert witnesses to make sure there is nothing in their backgrounds that could hurt the case.Case study
One criminal case involved several months of telephone records from multiple land and cellular lines. Reviewing and ascribing meaning to this data would have been daunting without the proper software. However, by importing the data into link-analysis software, we were instantly able to see a pattern of calls that was very helpful to the case. By enlarging these diagrams and having them professionally mounted on poster board, we had a powerful trial exhibit that was instrumental in the outcome of the case.
In another case, we were tasked with vetting an expert witness in a medical malpractice case. We exhaustively reviewed all available public records, including transcripts of other cases where he had testified, which included his divorce. While investigating his background, we learned that he was going to be speaking at an event in Washington, DC, so we decided to follow him and record the speech. The evidence helped to substantiate a theory that the expert was having an affair with someone at the opposing counsel’s law firm.