![]() When the video drops out at 3:00:06, Brockman said, "And that's what it shows for the remainder." In the audio recordings, Brockman is testifying about what the jury is seeing in the video. The audio record appears to support the allegations the trial tape was edited. We also pulled the audio recording of the two-day trial, to see if we could gather information from that to verify the tape shown to the jury was different than the one in evidence now. Perkins said she specifically remembered "a white, snowy" screen during that span of time. 4 phone call that she remembered the video "stopped, then picked back up some time later," but could not recall the number of minutes that passed. Michaela Perkins, Juror 531, told us in a Jan. Juror 349 told us he "remembered some issues" with the VHS being discussed at trial, but didn't remember specific details about what the video showed during the span of time the video dropped out. The others either didn't return messages or did not have working phone numbers. In order to independently verify what the jury saw, we attempted to contact all 12 jurors and one alternate. "But, that snow that fuzz, has since been edited out of the video tape since trial," Gray said as he watched the version of the video we obtained from the Butler County courthouse. Meadows and his client, Kevin Gray, both contend the video the jury saw during trial cut out to the blue screen, then white noise continued for a little more than six minutes-the same amount of time that passed between the time the clock showed before and after the video disappeared at 3:00:06. "It tells me this video appears to have been altered since we were in trial," Meadows said. "We had the snowy or staticky background, then the tape resumes six minutes later," Meadows told FOX19 NOW Investigative Reporter Jody Barr, describing the version the jury saw at trial. No one with the sheriff's office or the prosecutor's office has explained how-or why-this happened or what happened to more than six minutes of video. When the video comes back, the time stamp on the display shows 3:06:17. ![]() It stays that way for less than two seconds, then the video continues. When the clock in the top-right corner of the video reaches 3:00:06 a.m., the video turns to a blue screen. The video doesn't show the Gray traffic stop scene or any of the deputies involved because Brockman's cruiser was blocked by a row of cars at the used car lot where the stop happened. Then, the video shows Brockman speeding toward South B Street minutes after Deputy Jasen Hatfield radioed in he "had one fighting." The first thing you see is a blue screen before a menu appears. We wound the tape all the way to the beginning. The court allowed us to bring in our own VHS player to make a copy since the courthouse did not own a VHS player, we were told. An employee inside the court administration office unsealed the tape from an envelope and placed it on a desk. 20, a Butler County judge signed an order allowing us inside the courthouse to make a copy of "State's Exhibit #8" - the VHS tape from Deputy Mike Brockman's patrol car. The questions now: How did this happen? Who did it? And, why? "This does not appear to be the same video that way played during trial," Meadows said, "Somebody ought to be asking what happened to the original video." This time, while the tape was supposed to be locked away inside a Butler County evidence room. Now, there are allegations the tape was edited again-after trial. Gray claimed it was edited when more than six minutes were missing. Gray's defense team never knew the tape existed until the first day of trial. A sober Gray picked Ebbing up from a Hamilton bar when Deputy Jasen Hatfield pulled them over, claiming Gray had made an illegal U-turn. Gray's suit alleges, in part, the deputies edited the original dash camera video before trial and hid it from Gray's defense team for more than a year.īrockman's car, it turns out, was recording the aftermath of a traffic stop involving Gray and Ebbing. ![]() Jones, Deputy Jasen Hatfield and Deputy Mike Brockman. That tape is now at the center of a federal civil rights lawsuit against Sheriff Richard K. It came from Butler County Sheriff's Deputy Mike Brockman's car from the December 2014 traffic stop that landed Kevin Gray and Chris Ebbing in the county jail with felony charges. ![]() 10, 2016 criminal trial that Meadows was trying. Meadows was getting his first look at the video since it played in front of a jury during a Feb. He also said a few words we probably shouldn't write down here. Jeff Meadows stood in his law firm's conference room watching that now-infamous Butler County Sheriff's Office dash cam video.
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