As far as "using it as evidence..." The secret is that your "AI" doesn't actually need to create lost data. All you have to do is qualify yourself as an expert

As far as "using it as evidence..." The secret is that your "AI" doesn't actually need to create lost data. All you have to do is qualify yourself as an expert witness in Artificial Intelligence, and then you can say that your AI (which, let's be real, is a huge black box whose internal workings are a mystery to anybody) has identified X suspect in an image of y extracted from the scene with a Z probability score. Fill in X with the appropriate suspect at your discretion. (This already happens, athough not with imaging yet: https://www.propublica.org/article/where-traditional-dna-testing-fails-algorithms-take-over https://www.propublica.org/article/where-traditional-dna-tes...)