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Harrell can be heard on the March calls confessing to a purse snatching that left a woman paralyzed weeks prior. He also complains in the calls about the woman's GoFundMe asking for donations, according to a KTRK-TV report. In court records filed last Thursday, Evans, a former prosecutor and judge, said the release of the recorded calls “served no legitimate purpose and could have been done only to inflame the public."Scrutiny over the calls highlights a lesser-known evidentiary tool that has made it easier in recent years for criminal justice stakeholders to sift through countless hours of calls from detention facilities.
Although 200 employees in the district attorney’s office have access to the software, spokesman Joe Stinebaker said he was “exceedingly confident that no one with the Harris County District Attorney’s office had any involvement with leaking criminal defendant phone calls to the media.” “You don’t expect that you’ll have that much privacy within your cell,” Lipton said. “But with systems like these that make access very easy, individuals now have to worry that their laundry will be aired in front of everybody.”
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