Criminal Defense Team Secures Mistrial With Real-Time Evidence Analysis
Real-Time Court Analysis
Secured mistrial by analyzing hour-long interview in minutes.
99.4% Faster Medical ID
Generated list of 75 medical providers in 1 minute versus 3 hours manually.
Cut Hours of Case Prep
Multi-source analysis cut out hours of manual cross-referencing.
"One of the things I did with Rev... it would've taken me three hours to do it, is we needed to know every medical provider that she saw in two trips to the hospital. I had the medical records loaded, I clicked on 'em. I said, tell me the names and position of every medical provider that the victim saw during her two hospital visits. It gave me a list of 75 people, and it did it in a minute."
-Scott Lawson
Drenwniak Nicks Legal Defense PLLC
Customer Challenges
- Hours of video: Cases have six terabytes of evidence and beyond—meaning hours of video and audio review
- Exhausting manual review: Identifying discrepancies between police reports, victim statements, and body camera footage required exhaustive manual comparison across thousands of pages
- Medical records bottlenecks: Extracting critical information like medical provider names meant manually combing through extensive documentation for hours
Solutions
- Rapid transcription & search: Scott uploaded police reports, footage, victim statements, and medical records to make them instantly searchable in Rev
- Discrepancy detection: He easily compared officer narratives against video evidence quickly
- Evidence extraction: Scott quickly pulled provider lists and other critical data from medical records in one minute
- Real-time courtroom deployment: He analyzed evidence in court in real-time as developments unfolded
*Note: Due to case sensitivity, this gif shows a general demonstration of the way Scott used the product
The Impact
During trial, Scott found prosecutors withheld a key recording. He transcribed it with Rev, used AI to compare it with the prosecutors' summary, and uncovered favorable evidence for his client.
"I'm sitting there on my computer using it because we have an alleged victim that's told about seven different stories," Scott recalls. "I uploaded and it was an hour and something, but I uploaded it to Rev, let it transcribe it, and then put everything else that we had in there and said, tell me all the discrepancies. We actually used that to get the mistrial granted."
Results delivered:
- Mistrial achievement: Real-time analysis uncovered prosecutorial misconduct during active trial
- 99.4% faster evidence review: Medical record processing reduced from 3 hours to 1 minute
- Source verification: Multi-source discrepancy analysis for cases eliminates hours of manual cross-referencing
About Drewniak Nicks Legal Defense PLLC
Based in Lexington, Virginia, Drewniak Nicks specializes in criminal and military defense across Western and Central Virginia. The firm is led by LT. Col. (Ret) Sandra Nicks, a former JAG with 27+ years of experience. Investigative paralegal Scott Lawson brings 28 years of law enforcement and digital forensics expertise to high-stakes cases.
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