Criminal Defense
Catch the one line that matters.
Every recording and every report in the production, cross-checked against each other, with each answer cited to the file and the second it came from.
The problem
You can watch all of it and still not catch it.
One stop arrives as ten recordings and a six-page report. Nearly six hours of video, and the thing that decides the motion is one sentence on the third camera, seven seconds away from a sentence on a different camera that contradicts it. Watching all of it does not find that. Holding two cameras in your head at once does.
That is the part that stays manual no matter how good you are, because it is not a reading problem. It is a cross-referencing problem across files nobody can hold side by side.
“Really I shouldn't have to read every word of everything, but I do now.”
How it works
Every recording, already broken into the things that happened in it.
Every recording lands with its moments already pulled out, each one a plain sentence describing what happened and the line of speech it came from. Click a row and playback goes to that second. Same on jail calls and Zoom depositions, not just body-cam footage.
| Time | Key moment | Quoted speech |
|---|---|---|
| 0:26 | Basis for the stop stated | Tail lamp’s out — that’s the whole reason. |
| 1:06 | Driver removed from the vehicle | Step out for me. Hands where I can see them. |
| 1:30 | Driver alleges he was pushed into the hedgeConflict | Why’d you push me into the bushes? I wasn’t doing anything. |
| 2:34 | Records check requested | We just want to make sure there’s no probation or warrants. |
| 3:41 | Driver released at scene | You can step back to your car. |
Transcript
- Click any moment or transcript line to jump playback to that second
- Every citation traces to the exact timestamp, not a summary of it
- Recording dates read off the burned-in overlay, so your timeline sorts correctly
No proprietary viewer
It opens in your browser. On the laptop you already have.
MP4, MOV, MKV, WEBM, MP3, M4A, WAV, FLAC, OGG. Legati converts what needs converting on the way in and plays it back in the browser. Nothing to install, and nothing that only runs on the one machine in the office with enough memory for it.
“It's always a different format, different police formats, and they don't like our computers, and it slows them.”
Across every recording
He said no force was used. The other camera was still rolling.
Ask for every inconsistency in what people said about the use of force. Legati reads every recording and every report in the case together and shows you where the accounts stop matching, each one cited to the file and the second.
Two recordings · 7 seconds apart
Driver VIDEO-0012 · 1:30
“Why’d you push me into the bushes?”
Officer A, radio VIDEO-0003 · 1:37
“No force used, nothing eventful.”
- 1On the date of the incident, Officer A initiated a traffic stop of a gray sedan for an equipment violation (inoperative tail lamp).
- 2Subject was compliant throughout the stop. No use of force to report.
- 3Driver was directed out of the vehicle and stood at the roadside without incident. The stop was cleared and the driver departed.
Illustrative example. Fictional case, fictional speakers, fictional file numbers.
Facts and law together
Ask what your own record supports, and get the law with it.
You used to hold the facts in your head and then go find the law. Ask Legati what your record supports and the two arrive together, each ground cited to a page in your file and to a real published decision. Case law comes from an internal corpus, not the open internet, so a citation cannot be invented.
It is a starting point, not a citator. Legati does not Shepardize yet, so confirm subsequent history in Lexis or Westlaw before you file.
Your question
Any basis for a motion to suppress?
3 grounds · every one cited to a page and a second
- 1
Stop prolonged past the tail-lamp mission
The officer gives the tail lamp as “the whole reason” for the stop, then asks for a probation and warrants check that has nothing to do with an equipment violation.
VIDEO-0012 · 0:26VIDEO-0012 · 2:34Rodriguez v. United States, 575 U.S. 348 (2015) - 2
Force denied on a second camera
Seven seconds after the driver describes being pushed into the hedge, a second camera records the officer radioing that no force was used.
VIDEO-0012 · 1:30VIDEO-0003 · 1:37Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386 (1989) - 3
The written summary adopts the radio call
The report states the subject was compliant with no use of force, repeating the radio traffic rather than the recording it contradicts.
RPT-0417 · p.2VIDEO-0012 · 1:30Franks v. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154 (1978)
If the record doesn’t support a ground, it says so.
Illustrative example on a fictional stop. The decisions cited are real and published; the exhibits are not. Confirm subsequent history before you file.
“That literally just took my entire day down to an hour.”
And then there’s the phone.
A Cellebrite extraction is the whole device: every thread, every call, every photo, every app you didn’t think to check. It is where the case actually hides, and it is the part nobody can get through, because the tooling that reads it barely runs and searching it means guessing at keywords.
We are building phone extractions into the same index and the same search as the rest of your case file, so a thread is one more searchable record next to the body cam and the reports. When it ships, exact search will be labeled exact, and anything inferred will be labeled a lead rather than proof, because on a phone the difference between the two is the whole ballgame.
“There's also stuff in there that we probably don't even know is there.”
“We've opened that Cellebrite a hundred times and had experts do it, and nobody ever saw those Signal messages.”
Not available yet. If you want to shape it, we want the firms who hate the current tooling most. Ask about early access.
Chain of custody
The original media file you upload is preserved unmodified. Transcription and AI annotation run against a separate processing copy; the source file is never overwritten, and every access to it is logged the same way document and case access already are, per our security practices.
Confidentiality and work product
Which officers you flag as unreliable and which inconsistencies you plan to use at trial is work product. Legati never trains a model on your data, and body-cam evidence gets the same confidentiality treatment as a privileged phone call: it stays inside your case file.
Legati never invents what a witness said.
This is not keyword search, and it is not a model guessing at what happened. Legati finds evidence that keyword searches miss entirely, and if it can’t find something, it tells you, instead of guessing. Which still leaves the part that isn’t ours to do.
“You will be fired if you rely on AI and not your brain.”
That is the right rule, and nothing here is built to get around it. You still read your file and the judgment stays yours. You just stop finding things late.
Legati started in construction and commercial litigation, where our co-founders practiced for 20-plus years. Criminal defense is newer for us, built on the same document and media pipeline we have run in production for years, not a separate, unproven system.
See it on your case file.
30-minute demo. We’ll bring lunch or hop on Zoom.