The updates arrived today and TechShare is finally being overhauled to fix these download failures. I honestly never imagined we would get here, but this belongs entirely to the people who spoke up and kept pushing for a better system.
June 7, 2019
Final supporters
TO ANYONE WHO CARES WHAT DEFENSE ATTORNEYS THINK:
The Dallas Criminal Defense Bar would like to express its opinion on TechShare as a discovery vehicle. So many criminal cases now involve video evidence. There are body-cam videos, in-car videos, surveillance videos, recorded interviews of witnesses and defendants, and sometimes even a by-stander cell-phone recording. These videos are often very large (in excess of 1 GB) digital files. TechShare does a horrible job of allowing downloads of these large files. Attorneys have tried various “fixes” – changing browsers, changing internet providers, changing computers, etc., but nothing really seems to make a significant difference. Not only is the download speed impossibly slow, but when tasked with a lengthy download, TechShare invariably “fails”. For unknown reasons, the download “fails”, and you have to start all over again. Calls to tech support do nothing to help this. Often, the TechShare system kicks the user off in the middle of a download and the user has to log in again to start the download all over again. It is no exaggeration to say that sometimes it takes in excess of 10 attempts to download one file. And sometimes it is never successful and the attorney must resort to asking the prosecutor to put the file on a hard drive or burn it to a DVD. This download problem with TechShare makes it not an acceptable way of meeting the prosecution’s constitutional and statutory obligations to provide discovery to the defense.
The undersigned criminal defense attorneys just want to make everyone aware of their feelings about how TechShare is working and the problems it is causing the criminal defense bar.
Updates
May 22, 2019
I started this because I was tired of staring at failed download screens, but hearing from so many of you confirms that this is a widespread struggle. Your stories about the time wasted trying to get basic discovery files are eye-opening and they show just how much this system is failing us. Thank you for speaking up because it reminds me that none of us are dealing with this madness alone.
May 22, 2019
I am honestly overwhelmed by the response to this issue. It is clear that so many of you share this frustration with TechShare, and this momentum belongs entirely to the community that stepped up to speak out.
Reached 100 supporters
May 22, 2019
40 Comments
It is beyond ridiculous. Can’t download videos only pdf documents. Posses an unfair advantage to the State since they can access the videos at any time.
The slow download speeds mean that sometimes defense attorneys have to choose between downloading all videos and getting their pay sheets cut for being “unreasonable” or guessing which videos are important to the case and not merely duplicates so that their pay sheets will appear “reasonable enough” to be paid. This problem is a recipe for disaster and seems absurd when other platforms on the internet allow videos to be watched nearly in real time.
Techshare is an absolute failure. The download speeds, especially on large files, make it nearly impossible to use. Long downloads can not be allowed to operate in the background as inactivity seems to make it more likely to fail. This means lawyers or their staff have to stay actively engaged in hours long downloads (time neither the client nor the courts are willing to pay for).
I waste more time trying to download videos. Further, the DA can upload newly acquired evidence and not personally let me know. The amount of emails we get (and I mean everybody) is staggering in today’s society and any newly uploaded evidence comes in as a case number and not a client name and is conducive for being missed. Collin County hands over all discovery and they make sure they have it all. Simple and accurate. Tech Share does not work effectively.
I have 1000mb download internet speed at my personal residence, and I still have trouble downloading videos that are above 1GB when I’m at home. Downloading 92.7% of a DWI video and then having it drop to 0 bps after an hour after cancel downloading is frustrating as everything. Please fix it!
We would like to thank you once more for the wonderful ideas you offered Jeremy when preparing her post-graduate research and, most importantly, pertaining to providing every one of the ideas within a blog post. In case we had been aware of your website a year ago, we will have been saved the needless measures we were selecting. Thank you very much. adults toys
We would like to thank you yet again for the gorgeous ideas you gave Jeremy when preparing her post-graduate research and, most importantly, regarding providing every one of the ideas within a blog post. Provided we had been aware of your web-site a year ago, i'd have been saved the unwanted measures we were implementing. Thank you very much. adults toys
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The updates arrived today and TechShare is finally being overhauled to fix these download failures. I honestly never imagined we would get here, but this belongs entirely to the people who spoke up and kept pushing for a better system.
June 7, 2019
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TO ANYONE WHO CARES WHAT DEFENSE ATTORNEYS THINK:
The Dallas Criminal Defense Bar would like to express its opinion on TechShare as a discovery vehicle. So many criminal cases now involve video evidence. There are body-cam videos, in-car videos, surveillance videos, recorded interviews of witnesses and defendants, and sometimes even a by-stander cell-phone recording. These videos are often very large (in excess of 1 GB) digital files. TechShare does a horrible job of allowing downloads of these large files. Attorneys have tried various “fixes” – changing browsers, changing internet providers, changing computers, etc., but nothing really seems to make a significant difference. Not only is the download speed impossibly slow, but when tasked with a lengthy download, TechShare invariably “fails”. For unknown reasons, the download “fails”, and you have to start all over again. Calls to tech support do nothing to help this. Often, the TechShare system kicks the user off in the middle of a download and the user has to log in again to start the download all over again. It is no exaggeration to say that sometimes it takes in excess of 10 attempts to download one file. And sometimes it is never successful and the attorney must resort to asking the prosecutor to put the file on a hard drive or burn it to a DVD. This download problem with TechShare makes it not an acceptable way of meeting the prosecution’s constitutional and statutory obligations to provide discovery to the defense.
The undersigned criminal defense attorneys just want to make everyone aware of their feelings about how TechShare is working and the problems it is causing the criminal defense bar.
Updates
May 22, 2019
I started this because I was tired of staring at failed download screens, but hearing from so many of you confirms that this is a widespread struggle. Your stories about the time wasted trying to get basic discovery files are eye-opening and they show just how much this system is failing us. Thank you for speaking up because it reminds me that none of us are dealing with this madness alone.
May 22, 2019
I am honestly overwhelmed by the response to this issue. It is clear that so many of you share this frustration with TechShare, and this momentum belongs entirely to the community that stepped up to speak out.
Reached 100 supporters
May 22, 2019
40 Comments
Techshare, as it currently exists, does not serve to meet the State's requirements under Tex. CCP Art. 39.14. Providing a road, which is covered by roadblocks, is most assuredly providing no road at all. The unavailability of media files through tech share is directly analogous.
It is beyond ridiculous. Can’t download videos only pdf documents. Posses an unfair advantage to the State since they can access the videos at any time.
The slow download speeds mean that sometimes defense attorneys have to choose between downloading all videos and getting their pay sheets cut for being “unreasonable” or guessing which videos are important to the case and not merely duplicates so that their pay sheets will appear “reasonable enough” to be paid. This problem is a recipe for disaster and seems absurd when other platforms on the internet allow videos to be watched nearly in real time.
Techshare is an absolute failure. The download speeds, especially on large files, make it nearly impossible to use. Long downloads can not be allowed to operate in the background as inactivity seems to make it more likely to fail. This means lawyers or their staff have to stay actively engaged in hours long downloads (time neither the client nor the courts are willing to pay for).
I waste more time trying to download videos. Further, the DA can upload newly acquired evidence and not personally let me know. The amount of emails we get (and I mean everybody) is staggering in today’s society and any newly uploaded evidence comes in as a case number and not a client name and is conducive for being missed. Collin County hands over all discovery and they make sure they have it all. Simple and accurate. Tech Share does not work effectively.
I have 1000mb download internet speed at my personal residence, and I still have trouble downloading videos that are above 1GB when I’m at home. Downloading 92.7% of a DWI video and then having it drop to 0 bps after an hour after cancel downloading is frustrating as everything. Please fix it!
We would like to thank you once more for the wonderful ideas you offered Jeremy when preparing her post-graduate research and, most importantly, pertaining to providing every one of the ideas within a blog post. In case we had been aware of your website a year ago, we will have been saved the needless measures we were selecting. Thank you very much. adults toys
We would like to thank you yet again for the gorgeous ideas you gave Jeremy when preparing her post-graduate research and, most importantly, regarding providing every one of the ideas within a blog post. Provided we had been aware of your web-site a year ago, i'd have been saved the unwanted measures we were implementing. Thank you very much. adults toys
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Techshare, as it currently exists, does not serve to meet the State's requirements under Tex. CCP Art. 39.14. Providing a road, which is covered by roadblocks, is most assuredly providing no road at all. The unavailability of media files through tech share is directly analogous.