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The Digital Exhibit Lifecycle: Marking, Offering, Admitting, and the Exhibit List
Police manage evidence. Courts manage exhibits. The difference between those two sentences is the act of admission, and it is the reason digital ...
August 18, 2026
Data Ownership, Portability, and Avoiding Vendor Lock-In in Court Systems
The court owns its record. Everyone agrees with that sentence, and it settles almost nothing about court data portability or vendor lock-in.
August 18, 2026
Remote and Hybrid Hearings: Evidence, the Record, and Public Access
Courts adopted remote hearings under emergency conditions and then discovered they were not going back. Judges who moved to remote appearances have ...
August 18, 2026
Exhibits in a Virtual Hearing: Access, Control, and the Record
Courts worrying about presenting evidence in a virtual hearing usually frame it as a conferencing problem. It rarely is. Teams, Zoom, and Webex all ...
August 18, 2026
Language Access in the Courts: Transcription and Translation Obligations
A court has to be understood by the people appearing in front of it, and it has to produce an accurate record of what was said. When a hearing runs ...
August 18, 2026
Finding the Moment a Statement Was Made
A witness says something on day two. On day six, counsel says the witness said something different. The judge needs to know what was actually said, ...
August 18, 2026
AI Translation of Judgments, Documents, and the Spoken Record
A judgment is delivered to the parties. If a party cannot read it, the delivery was formal rather than actual, and in jurisdictions where a ...
August 18, 2026
Can AI Transcription Be Trusted With the Official Court Record?
Asking whether AI transcription is accurate enough for court is the wrong question, because accuracy is not a single number and the record is not a ...
August 18, 2026
Livestreaming Court Proceedings: Public Access Without Losing Control
Open justice is a principle with an implementation problem. Courts are public, the public increasingly expects to watch remotely, and livestreaming ...
August 18, 2026
Verifying an Exhibit From the Bench
Search for guidance on digital evidence integrity and you will find a great deal of it, written almost entirely for the party preserving the ...
August 18, 2026
Searching a Court's Own Prior Rulings and Transcripts
Ask a judge how comparable matters were handled before and you will get one of two answers. Either a recollection, which is honest and incomplete, or ...
August 18, 2026
What Courts Should Ask AI Vendors Before Signing Anything
Most AI procurement conversations are conducted on the vendor's terms, using the vendor's vocabulary, against a demonstration the vendor prepared. ...
August 18, 2026
Writing an AI Policy for a Court: Approval, Disclosure, Review, and Audit
Most courts writing a court AI policy are writing it late. That is not a criticism, it is the position nearly everyone is in, and it changes what the ...
August 18, 2026
AI Redaction for Court Records and Public Release
Court records redaction automation exists because the arithmetic stopped working. Manual video redaction is frame-by-frame work: somebody scrubs the ...
August 18, 2026
Cross-Border Evidence Exchange Between Courts
Cross-border digital evidence exchange between courts used to move at the speed of paper and diplomacy. A request went through central authorities, ...
August 18, 2026
Data Residency and Jurisdiction: Why In-Country Storage Is Not the Whole Answer
Choosing a storage region answers exactly one question, which is where the bytes sit when nothing is happening to them. A regulator or a legal team ...
August 12, 2026
Chain of Custody for AI Outputs
A chain of custody for an AI output has to record how the output was made, not only who has handled it since. That is the whole difference from the ...
August 12, 2026
How to Summarize a Deposition With AI
A single deposition transcript can run several hundred pages, and a case can have dozens of them. Someone still has to turn each one into something ...
Updated September 17, 2026