Erik Ortiz is a senior reporter for NBC News Digital focusing on racial injustice and social inequality.
A cellphone analyst suggested he's been stymied by law enforcement's disorganized data collection and recordkeeping in the case against Bryan Kohberger, the graduate student accused in the fatal stabbings of four Idaho college students, during a pretrial hearing Thursday.
His expertise has previously come under scrutiny. Earlier in Thursday's hearing, a lead investigator with the Moscow Police Department testified that thousands of hours of surveillance video were collected in relation to a Hyundai Elantra that prosecutors say Kohberger was driving when he left his apartment in Washington state, 9½ miles away from where the murders took place in Moscow, Idaho.
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