Who we are.

1. Origin

BenchRecon is a founder-led, single-operator data products project serving criminal defense attorneys — state, county, and federal. For state-court practice, Officer Lookup searches public officer complaint and certification-discipline records for the officer testifying against your client, and the Jury Instruction Brief carries the verbatim Florida Standard Jury Instruction text with its amendment history — jurisdiction by jurisdiction. On the federal side, structured exhibits from public sentencing data document what the U.S. Sentencing Commission collected and what the standard courtroom tool (JSIN) does not show.

Built by a data engineer with prior federal-criminal-data ETL experience. Every BenchRecon analytical pipeline is operated by one person — that's why the methodology page is the longest page on the site, and why every claim ties to a named public record that anyone can re-check. The product is the data discipline, not the operator's name.

We are not a law firm. We do not employ attorneys in a client-representation capacity. The work is data engineering against public-records datasets — no legal advice, no representation.

2. What we ship

In the current catalog, for state and county practice: Officer Lookup (source-cited officer complaint and certification-discipline records) and the Jury Instruction Brief (verbatim Florida Standard Jury Instructions with amendment history). For federal practice: the Sentencing Snapshot (a full-distribution comparables brief for any federal Guidelines cell), the JSIN Exclusion Brief (an exclusion-accounting exhibit with § 3006A ↗ motion language), the Compassionate Release Research Pack, and a library of motion and forensic-foundation template packs spanning suppression, severance, discovery, pretrial detention, speedy-trial, sentencing-memo, plea-colloquy, cooperator cross-exam, and Daubert challenges. Each product page shows whether its paid checkout is open or still completing data-readiness review.

Additional products are on the waitlist: district-level bench tendency reports, judge and prosecutor pattern intelligence, and appeal-posture exhibits. If a product is listed as "coming soon" on the site, you can join the waitlist and we will email you when it is available.

3. The data-source citation philosophy

Every claim in every report that can be sourced to a specific record cites the public record it was drawn from — the officer-conduct dataset row, the court-published instruction text, or the USSC datafile vintage. For federal sentencing the Commission anonymizes case-level microdata by design, so the verifiable source is the datafile itself; for the officer and instruction products, every row links to the named public record behind it.

The motivation is straightforward: after Mata v. Avianca (S.D.N.Y. 2023) ↗, the professional-responsibility risk of presenting unverifiable factual claims to a court is permanent and well documented — 1,227 documented hallucination incidents in 2026 ↗, with a record sanction of $109,700. BenchRecon ships zero generative content; every claim is an aggregated public record.

We count source citations. The footer of every report reports the total. If any data-source citation in a report is broken or does not resolve to the public record it cites, email us within 7 days. We will correct the report or refund the purchase.

4. What we do not do

We do not provide legal advice. We do not generate argument text using language models. We provide template motion language drawn from prior practitioner submissions; you draft, edit, and file. We do not represent clients.

The JSIN Exclusion Brief includes a § 3006A factual-recital template — a fixed text with cell-specific data values substituted in, labeled edit before filing — for counsel's review and use. Briefs are structured data exhibits: numbers, distributions, and source citations.

We do not guarantee any case outcome. The data is what the public record holds. What it means for your client is a legal judgment that belongs to you as counsel.

5. Contact

Questions about a report you received, a refund request, or a product you want to see built: