by Steve Burgess | Oct 26, 2026 | AI, Attorneys, CSI, Digital Evidence, Digital Forensics, Litigation Support
You’ve seen the movie. The defense expert pats the last hair into its slicked place, adjusts his tie, and strolls confidently to the stand, with what he believes is a knowing smile on his face. Then the prosecutor asks a sharp question and the smile crumbles. Real...
by Steve Burgess | Oct 19, 2026 | Attorneys, Cell phones, Digital Evidence, Digital Forensics
If television has taught the public anything, it’s that catching a cyberstalker takes about thirty seconds in a dark van with lots of blinking lights and headphones, a hoodie, some scrolling green text, and (if we’re lucky) an overly enthusiastic keyboard smash. In...
by Steve Burgess | Oct 12, 2026 | AI, Attorneuys, Attorneys, Cell phones, Cyber Investigations, Cyberbullying, Digital Evidence, Digital Forensics, Electronic Discovery
If you scan the criminal dockets for cases involving cyberstalking, you will notice a persistent pattern. Cyberstalking is rarely the main course. More often than not, it’s just the side dish. It gets tacked onto a primary indictment for domestic violence, extortion,...
by Steve Burgess | Oct 5, 2026 | AI, Attorneys, Cell phones, Cyber Investigations, Digital Evidence, Digital Forensics
Your next custodian might not have an inbox, a job title, strong feelings about the office thermostat, or about someone nuking last night’s salmon in the microwave. It might have API access. For the uninitiated, an API is a way for software systems to communicate and...
by Steve Burgess | Sep 8, 2026 | Attorneys, Digital Evidence, Digital Forensics, Electronic Discovery, Technology & Law
The Fourth Amendment walks into the fourth dimension. The bartender says, “Why are you here?” The Fourth Amendment replies, “You’re going to need probable cause to ask me that.” In some of my earlier articles and videos, I referred to a “Fourth Amendment search”...
by Steve Burgess | Aug 31, 2026 | Attorneys, Cell phones, Cyber Investigations, Digital Evidence, Digital Forensics, Electronic Discovery
Your phone has been keeping a travel diary. For years, Google kept a copy too. That made possible one of the more controversial investigative tools of the smartphone era: the geofence warrant, sometimes called a reverse-location warrant. Instead of starting with a...
