About
The network behind the archives.
Court Daemon is an independent network of searchable trial archives built from courtroom recordings, court reporter transcripts, filings, and public court information.
What it is
Each archive organizes a case record around its proceedings, people, evidence, locations, documents, and other reference material. The individual archive sites hold the full record. This site is the front door to the network.
The archives are built for readers who want to find a specific exchange, follow testimony across several days, understand who appeared when, or watch the source video alongside the text.
Sources and access
Sources differ by case and may include courtroom recordings, court-reporter transcripts, filings, and other public court information. Each archive identifies its sources and material limitations.
Readers can search transcripts, follow testimony and proceedings, and, where available, watch courtroom video beside the text.
Accuracy
Transcript sources and accuracy vary by archive. Some use court-reporter records; others include text derived from courtroom video. Each archive identifies its source and material limitations.
Summaries, profiles, timelines, and other guides are separate from the transcript. Some are produced with AI assistance and may contain errors or miss important context; use the transcript and cited records for important questions.
These sites are research archives, not official court records. When accuracy matters, readers should verify the text against the linked recording or the official record.
Network history
- TSMThe Simpson Matter opened with the O.J. Simpson criminal trial, civil trial, and depositions.
- KRTCommonwealth v. Read opened with both Karen Read trials.
- DVHDepp v. Heard opened with twenty-seven trial days.
- DMThe Dan Markel archive opened and later expanded to four trials.
- LMThe Luigi Mangione archive opened across three jurisdictions.
- MURThe Alex Murdaugh archive opened with the certified 2023 trial transcript and retrial record.
- HOLThe Elizabeth Holmes archive opened with the 2021 federal criminal trial transcript.
- MAXThe Ghislaine Maxwell archive opened with the 2021 federal criminal trial transcript.
- SBFThe Sam Bankman-Fried archive opened with the 2023 federal criminal trial transcript.
- JONThe Timothy Jones Jr. archive opened with the 2019 Lexington County trial transcript.
- COMThe Sean Combs archive opened with the 2025 federal criminal trial transcript.
- ADThe Steven Avery & Brendan Dassey archive opened with both 2007 Wisconsin murder-trial transcripts.
- BOOThe Sarah Boone archive opened with the court-reporter transcript of her 2024 Florida murder trial.
- TSAThe Dzhokhar Tsarnaev archive opened with court-reporter transcripts from his 2015 federal criminal trial.
- CLAThe Lindsay Clancy archive opened with transcripts and synchronized courtroom video from her 2026 Massachusetts trial.
- NXVThe NXIVM archive opened with the federal court-reporter record of Keith Raniere's 2019 trial and 2020 sentencing.
- SRThe Silk Road archive opened with court-reporter transcripts from Ross Ulbricht's 2015 federal trial.
The archives
Contact
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