In some cases involving cell phone extractions, public defenders and other criminal defense attorneys are being provided with incomplete discovery. When the prosecution provides only PDF and UFED Reader reports to defense counsel, this is not complete discovery. While the UFED Reader reports can be helpful in navigating the phone’s data, the UFED Reader is an incomplete data set that can easily be redacted and must be validated with the original extraction.
Below is a simple infographic that you can use to determine if you are missing critical data. Thank you to Spencer McInvaille of Envista Forensics for putting together this infographic!
