Has anyone built judge-focused modules that sharpen gatekeeping on body-cam edits, Ring clips, and Cellebrite reports under FRE 901 and the 2023 Rule 702 amendments? I’m a criminal defense attorney building an April training for our county bench to give judges repeatable authentication checklists and expert voir dire scripts that protect due process and let them spot reliability gaps before a jury ever hears it — what’s worked in your programs?
I’d build a one-page “provenance sheet” judges can require for every body-cam/Ring clip — capture source, full chain of custody, hashes at each handoff, software/version and export settings, and if edited, tool logs plus a brief note of what’s removed. In voir dire, anchor 702 on “show your work” by having the expert tie the method to that exact tool/version with cited validation and stated error rates; SWGDE’s video best-practices are an easy crib: Best Practices for Data Destruction, Sanitization - SWGDE. Small caveat: checklists go stale as tools update — would a versioned template and re-cert on software upgrades fit your April plan?