"Over several months. The last full copy was made a little more than three weeks ago."
"What was on it?"
"Raw system exports: dispatch records, complaint data, evidence access records, internal communications, audio fragments."
The description matched what the forensic team had already seen. Paul asked, "Why did you create it?"
Turner rested both hands on the table. "Because records were changing after incidents closed."
"What kind of changes?"
"Dispatch times moved, unit identifiers disappeared, complaint classifications changed. Evidence access showed up in back-end logs, but not always in the version supervisors were reviewing."
"Did you report that internally?"
Turner gave a tired smile. "More than once."
"What happened?"
"My contract was terminated." Paul did not react; Turner continued: "Officially, there were performance concerns. Unofficially, I was told I had become difficult to work with."
His attorney placed a hand on the folder in front of him. "We have correspondence related to that termination, if you need it."
"Later. We probably will." Paul moved carefully to the next question. "Were the files on the drive altered by you?"
"No."
"Renamed?"
"Some folders were renamed so I could organize the copy. The source files themselves were not edited."
"Can you identify the source systems?"
"Yes."
"Passwords for encrypted folders?"
"Yes."
"Export dates?"
"Most of them."
The forensic specialist slid a printed directory structure across the table without revealing file contents. Turner looked at it for only a few seconds.
"This is mine."
Paul asked, "How can you tell?"
"The naming structure. I used year, system, source type, then export batch. Nobody at the department organized files that way." He pointed to several folders. "That one came from dispatch archive. That one is complaint back-end. Evidence access was pulled separately because it was stored under a different permissions layer."
The specialist asked him to explain how the raw logs would differ from later department reports. Turner did so without hesitation, describing fields, timestamps, and system labels that matched information the forensic team had already independently identified.
Paul wrote nothing for nearly a minute; he simply listened. Eventually, he asked the question Harland's attorneys would certainly ask:
"Mr. Turner, did Maya Williams know you had this drive?"