The ADA Called Her a Thief at the Clerk's Window — Until She Slid Him a Paper Dated Before the Arrest

"You stole the evidence, Voss!" Derek Trask's palm slammed the counter hard enough that every clerk in the office stopped typing behind the glass.
I'm Mara Voss. Public defender. And the senior ADA had just accused me — loudly, in front of the whole records floor — of deleting the body-cam file that would prove my client was innocent.
One word from Derek and the hallway took his side. One complaint to the bar and my license, my client's freedom, the whole case — gone before 5 p.m.
The deputy clerk couldn't find the exhibit log. The file showed up missing. Every face in that window said: careless little defense attorney, she lost the evidence.
But my folder was already open. Because Derek made one mistake.
He signed an exhibit-disposal form.
And he dated it the day BEFORE the arrest.
Read that again. He "disposed" of a body-cam file that — legally — didn't exist yet. You can't destroy evidence before the arrest happens… unless destroying it was the plan from the start.
He leaned over the counter, certain I had nothing. I slid the form across. His signature, the DA's office stamp, a date highlighted in yellow that shattered his whole accusation in one line.
The room flipped. And the person who finally spoke the truth out loud wasn't me.
Full story in the comments below — what the log really showed, and what the DA's ethics panel did next.
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