People keep asking why I’m still fighting. Why wouldn't you if you were cheated out of a fair trial?
From day one, the States case relied on the dash‑cam video, but the paperwork and testimony about how police got that video don’t line up with what the law requires.
The August 3, 2022, search warrant for his Charger only asked to search for “9mm shell casings or any other ammunition, firearms, or instrumentalities of the crimes described above,” and never mentioned a dash cam or a digital data extraction at all. Yet the return shows officers seized a “TOGUARD DASH CAM CAMERA,” and at trial they testified they “found” a camera while executing that warrant at the tow yard, pulled the micro‑SD card, and turned it into the DVD the jury saw.
After trial, I reviewed the dash‑cam files and swore in an affidavit that the metadata and segment list don’t match the State’s story: the file dates don’t line up with the August 3 warrant, there are 17 minutes of gaps in what is supposed to be 26 minutes of incident footage, and deeper “created/modified/accessed” timestamps appear to have been wiped to all zeros. I also swore that we told both the original lawyer and trial lawyers about these problems before trial and begged them to file a suppression motion and get a forensic expert, but no motion was filed and no expert was hired.
The State now claims the dash cam was “disabled” before the warrant so it “could not be remotely destroyed,” which doesn’t match the trial testimony that it was supposedly first “discovered” during the August 3 search. The prosecutor's response brief in July 2025 "if Megan was such an expert, she would know the dash cam wasn't removed but disabled the day before the search." Yet the detective and crime lab tech both claimed, "we discovered the dash-cam on the passenger seat of the car when we issued the search." You see where I'm going with this??
My post‑conviction filings argue this is both a Brady problem and an ineffective‑assistance problem: the State never produced the original native dash‑cam file and metadata so the defense could fully test it, even though law enforcement still has the native recording, and his trial lawyers failed to litigate suppression or get a digital‑forensics review of the one piece of evidence everyone (including the court of appeals) says decided my case.
I’m not asking for special treatment—just a fair chance to put all of this in front of a judge in a real evidentiary hearing, so the Brady and ineffective‑assistance issues around the dash cam and the warrant can finally be decided on a complete record.
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