Resistance Kitty examines a broken evidence pipeline showing six steps for tracing evidence that never reached prosecutors, from proving the evidence existed through reporting only what the records prove.

RSG #360: How To Trace Evidence That Never Reached Prosecutors

An investigator collects an interview, photograph, recording, financial record, forensic result, or digital extraction. The evidence enters an agency file. Then, somewhere between collection and prosecution, it stops moving. Sometimes the explanation is ordinary. The evidence was duplicative, unrelated, legally unusable, transferred elsewhere, or received after a decision was made. Sometimes an agent failed to …

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RSG #359: How To Audit the Government’s Handling of Witness Recantations

RSG #359: How To Audit the Government’s Handling of Witness Recantations

A witness changes her story. An informant withdraws an accusation. A cooperating defendant admits that his first account was incomplete. Suddenly, the government must decide whether it has received a meaningful correction, a frightened retreat, a tactical lie, or evidence that its case has been wobbling around in borrowed heels. A witness recantation does not …

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