TRUTH HUNTER
INVESTIGATIONS
DeKalb County, Georgia
Not Guilty
Investigation
Criminal Defense Investigation
Year
2024
Location
DeKalb County, Georgia
Retained By
Scott Smith, Peach State Law
Objective
Challenge law enforcement’s investigative theory and tactics through discovery review, independent evidence collection, witness interviews, digital evidence analysis, and trial testimony.
The Work
Behind the
Record.
How Did Truth Hunter Investigations Play a Part?
Counsel retained the firm to take apart a violent-felony investigation that had been built around a single police theory and then stopped. The file showed limited follow-up on alternative explanations, incomplete witness work, and digital material that had been collected but not meaningfully analyzed. The assignment was to determine whether the State’s narrative survived an investigation conducted to accepted professional standards.
Discovery was reviewed end to end. Additional evidence was collected independently of the original police workup. Witnesses were located and interviewed for what they actually saw, when they saw it, and how their accounts compared with the reports already in the file. Digital evidence was examined for timing, communication, and consistency with the State’s claimed sequence of events.
Those findings were prepared for trial use, including testimony on investigative methods and the gaps in the original case. I testified as a rebuttal witness highlighting complete inaccuracies testified by law enforcement investigators. The work gave the jury a second investigation to measure against the first.
Jury trial charges: Armed Robbery (2 counts), Hijacking a Motor Vehicle, Aggravated Assault.
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