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“discovery is just a very general term that encompasses any evidence that the state or the prosecutor is using against you so often what we see in criminal charges is the discovery will have all the police reports it will have all of the body-worn camera evidence it will have witness statements it will have their surveillance video or 9-1-1 calls or any kind of video of the event that's what discovery is the state is required to give your defense attorney absolutely everything that they have against you so that we can prepare a proper defense to whatever they have”
“so when we say we're waiting on discovery or we're requesting discovery what that means is we as your attorney are reaching out asking for every single piece of evidence that's going to be used against you because we have the right to see it well before anything happens with it so what that means is if we have to go to trial we already know exactly what the state is bringing in”
“the reason i bring that up is a lot of the times in these tv shows like law and order you'll see people walk into court waving some new piece of evidence and the prosecutor will say and then there's this smoking gun i found last night while i was asleep that's not how it goes in the real world we have the right to see absolutely every single thing that the prosecution has against you well in advance and if they pull some shenanigans like that walking into court last minute with some huge piece of evidence we have a pretty good chance of getting your case thrown out because that is not legal in the state of colorado”
“make sure that if you have a criminal defense attorney you have access to that discovery because you are the one being charged you have the right to see everything that they're bringing against you and make sure you have an attorney or a firm that will give you all that evidence and make sure that you have time to review it at your own pace so that you fully understand what is being brought against you”
“that's not how it goes in the real world we have the right to see absolutely every single thing that the prosecution has against you well in advance and if they pull some shenanigans like that walking into court last minute with some huge piece of evidence we have a pretty good chance of getting your case thrown out because that is not legal in the state of colorado”
“make sure that if you have a criminal defense attorney you have access to that discovery because you are the one being charged you have the right to see everything that they're bringing against you”
“make sure you have an attorney or a firm that will give you all that evidence and make sure that you have time to review it at your own pace so that you fully understand what is being brought against you”