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District attorney urges county to buy Axon evidence system to avoid losing cases under new rules
Summary
Potter County prosecutors asked commissioners to fund an Axon digital evidence management subscription, saying it will reduce risk of evidence suppression under recent Court of Criminal Appeals decisions; estimated recurring cost to county offices ranged from about $79,000 to $119,000 depending on allocation and data migration assumptions.
The Potter County District Attorney’s office asked commissioners to fund a subscription to Axon’s digital evidence management system to better preserve and share digital evidence across local law enforcement and prosecutor offices.
The prosecutor described Court of Criminal Appeals case law and the Michael Morton-era disclosure regime as drivers for the purchase: without a modern cloud-based chain-of-custody and transfer system, the prosecutor said, the county risks suppression of evidence and dismissal of otherwise strong cases if digital evidence cannot be reliably tracked and…
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