Overview#
Brady violations do not just lose cases; they end careers and can result in wrongful conviction reversals years after sentencing. A district attorney's office managing hundreds of active cases cannot rely on manual review to catch every piece of exculpatory material buried in body camera footage, forensic lab notes, or officer misconduct files. The Compliance Disclosure Automation module tackles this head-on by applying AI-powered evidence analysis across all case materials before trial, automatically identifying Brady and Giglio obligations and generating complete disclosure packages.
Built for prosecutors, defence attorneys, and legal compliance teams, the system reduces disclosure preparation time substantially while maintaining a complete audit trail for every constitutional obligation met.
Key Features#
- AI-powered Brady material identification detecting exculpatory evidence across police reports, witness statements, forensic reports, and digital evidence with high accuracy
- Five Brady material categories covered: impeachment evidence (Giglio), exculpatory evidence, mitigating circumstances, witness credibility issues, and prosecutorial misconduct indicators
- Complete audit trail for Brady, Giglio, and disclosure obligations, ensuring constitutional compliance is fully documented
- Advanced natural language processing detecting subtle exculpatory indicators with context awareness to minimise false positives
- Automated disclosure package generation with deadline tracking integrated into the workflow
- Legal review workflows with structured approval processes and mandatory sign-off gates
- Historical case analysis for pattern identification across the caseload
- Multi-agency support maintaining disclosure compliance across organisational boundaries
Use Cases#
- Prosecution Compliance: District attorney offices ensure complete Brady compliance by automatically scanning all case evidence for exculpatory material before trial, removing reliance on individual reviewer judgement
- Defence Coordination: Defence teams receive timely, complete disclosure packages with proper documentation and audit trails, reducing pre-trial disputes over disclosure completeness
- Multi-Agency Investigations: Complex cases involving multiple agencies maintain disclosure compliance across organisational boundaries with automated tracking and a centralised obligations register
- Compliance Oversight: Legal compliance leadership monitors disclosure timeliness and completeness across the entire active caseload, identifying systemic gaps before they become violations
Integration#
- Connects with case management systems and evidence platforms for automated evidence scanning on ingestion
- Compatible with document repositories for comprehensive evidence analysis across all file types
- Supports automated disclosure package delivery with secure recipient authentication
- Timeline tracking with automated deadline alerts and escalation workflows
- Audit trail export for regulatory review and legal proceedings
- Role-based access controls ensuring appropriate information access at every stage
Open Standards#
- RFC 3161 (Time-Stamp Protocol): Every finalised disclosure bundle manifest receives a mandatory RFC 3161 cryptographic timestamp token from a trusted timestamp authority, providing court-admissible proof of the exact time at which the package was sealed.
- CMS/PKCS#7 (RFC 5652): A detached Cryptographic Message Syntax signature is computed over the bundle manifest and stored in DER encoding, allowing recipients to verify the package has not been altered since disclosure.
- ISO 19005-3 (PDF/A-3): Disclosure bundle index documents and compliance reports are rendered as PDF/A-3, the ISO archival variant required by many court systems for long-term, self-contained document preservation.
- SHA-256 (FIPS 180-4): Every evidence document, produced PDF, and bundle manifest is individually hashed with SHA-256; the hashes are assembled into a Merkle tree whose root is embedded in the manifest, enabling page-level integrity verification.
- GraphQL: Brady analysis, disclosure bundle lifecycle (create, finalise, disclose), and case-strategy operations are all exposed through a strongly typed GraphQL schema, enabling structured queries from prosecution and defence tooling.
- JSON (IETF RFC 8259): The canonical bundle manifest, Brady risk analyses, Merkle root records, and audit-log metadata are all serialised as JSON, making the disclosure package machine-readable and verifiable offline without proprietary tooling.
Last Reviewed: 2026-02-23 Last Updated: 2026-04-14