Jan. 6 Court Rivals Benefit from Unexpected Evidence Cooperation

Prosecutors and attorneys representing defendants charged with participating in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack have forged an unlikely collaboration in sorting through 5 million electronic files.

Both sides rely largely on a web-based platform built by Deloitte in coordination with the Justice Department and federal public defenders. The software, along with a separate cloud-based system, allows lawyers to organize and share what DOJ has called an unprecedented amount of surveillance, police camera footage, and other digital evidence from the insurrection.

The pre-trial mandatory document disclosure—or discovery—process in such contentious Jan. 6 cases could become a model for reducing antagonism ...