Two cameras, one clock
The report says he consented. On camera he says, “I’m not consenting to any search.” Watch both officers’ cameras in sync and read the transcripts against the same second.
The answer is somewhere on that drive.
The prosecution hands over fifty thousand files: body-cam video, scanned reports, a spreadsheet with a sheet somebody hid. There is one of you, and the trial date isn’t moving. Versal reads all of it and shows you the page behind every sentence, so what you find, you can stand on.
Do the report and the dispatch log agree on when the stop happened?
Searched the CAD event log for unit 4471 and K9-3, including the hidden “Unit history” sheet. Read 5 documents.
No — they are about 23 minutes apart.
Reyes’s report says she initiated the stop at approximately 2340 hours. The dispatch log records the stop being called in by her unit, 4471, at 23:17:42.
The log also shows a K9 unit sent to the stop at 23:24:05. Okafor’s statement puts the stop “a little after 11”.
Reyes later testified that the time in her report was an estimate.
CAD Event Log 24-041187.xlsxSheet: Events · row 84
| Time | Unit | Event | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 82 | 23:12:03 | 3310 | CLEAR | |
| 83 | 23:15:27 | 4471 | PLATE CHECK | REDWOOD/1700 S |
| 84 | 23:17:42 | 4471 | TRAFFIC STOP | 1700 S REDWOOD RD |
| 85 | 23:18:30 | 4471 | DL CHECK | |
| 86 | 23:21:02 | DISP | DL VALID NO WANTS |
Go on, open a citation. This is the sample case State v. Hale: every name, document and number in it is invented.
First, the truth about what’s on the drive.
Some of it won’t open. A format nobody uses anymore, a corrupted scan, a video in a player you don’t own. Most tools skip those quietly, and you find out at the worst possible moment.
Versal starts by telling you exactly what it read and what it couldn’t, file by file. A full phone extraction is held, unopened, until you decide what to do with it.
| Documents | 49,871 |
|---|---|
| Pages | 318,440 |
| People and organisations | 386 |
| Chronology entries proposed | 41 |
| Not processed | 1,908 |
| Unsupported file types | 1,640 |
| Failed | 266 |
| Quarantined for your decision | 2 |
The report says 11:40. The dispatch log says 11:17.
Twenty-three minutes. It’s the kind of thing you find at one in the morning on the third read, if you find it at all. Versal puts every account of that stop side by side, each exactly as its source wrote it, and marks the time disputed.
It won’t tell you who is right. That’s your call. Nothing goes into your chronology until you accept it, one entry at a time, and when you correct something the original stays beside your correction.
And when you need to see it for yourself.
Everything one officer said
Pull up a witness and read every statement they made on a topic, in the order they made it, each one cited. Before cross, not during it.
Search that doesn’t bury you
Seventeen hundred hits is not an answer. Results come grouped by document, and related wording finds the gas station when you searched for the road.
You sign the motion. So it shows its work.
A tool that is confidently wrong isn’t an inconvenience for you. It’s your name on a filing. Versal is built around what you can check.
- Every sentence comes with its page.
- Click the citation and you’re looking at the passage, highlighted. If the passage doesn’t actually say it, the sentence is marked unsupported, right there in the answer.
- When sources disagree, you see the disagreement.
- Each account appears as its document states it, hedges and all. Versal never picks a winner and never uses the word contradiction. You decide what it means.
- Nothing is in your chronology until you put it there.
- Entries arrive as suggestions. You accept them one at a time. There is no “accept all”, on purpose.
- When it finds nothing, it says so.
- And it tells you where it looked. It will not tell you the record is silent.
Then the supplemental production shows up.
It always does, and usually late. Your review stays: everything you accepted, corrected and noted. The new material comes in flagged, and you keep working while it’s read.