Evidence Marshaling for Investigation & Litigation: Cloud Computing

I'm starting to put MarshalPlan 3.0 (evidence marshaling software) on the web.

Please see here and here

You will need to download a plug-in. If the plug-in icon does not appear, please go here and download the plug-in.

In a few weeks I will post about 20 more evidence marshaling stacks on the web.

Comments are welcome.

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The dynamic evidence page

Coming soon: the law of evidence on Spindle Law

Organized Crime May (Partially) Defeat New Japanese Mixed-Court System

"Lay judges may not try mob hit," Japanese Times Online (July 18, 2009):

Prosecutors will ask a court not to try a gangster under the lay judge system for fear of possible reprisals against citizen judges, prosecution sources said Friday.

A rough parallel to the fate of trial by jury in Diplock (terrorist) cases in Northern Ireland during "The Troubles."

Should Japanese officialdom have a bit more faith in its citizenry and a little less belief in the power of its organized crime?

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The dynamic evidence page

Coming soon: the law of evidence on Spindle Law

EATR?

EATR = Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot

Yes, we will (will we?) owe this to DARPA. See here

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The dynamic evidence page

Coming soon: the law of evidence on Spindle Law

How Many Evidence Marshaling Strategies Are There?

You will forgive me, I trust, if I return to MarshalPlan once again. You see, I think of MarshalPlan as my baby.

Other people who may not wish to be publicly acknowledged, deserve part of whatever credit is due for the creation of MarshalPlan. It is possible my former collaborators think me slightly daft for continuing to develop MarshalPlan. If they do, I would humbly beg to differ with them. I admit I am "possessed" by the MarshalPlan project. But this is not only because I think MarshalPlan may be very useful to legal professionals such as litigators and investigators, but also because I think MarshalPlan says something important -- fundamental -- about human knowledge.

The following are the evidence marshaling stacks that so far exist in MarshalPlan -- and each one of these stacks (or files) is the equivalent of a method of marshaling, or organizing, evidence:

Analysts (Users)
Legal Actors
Event Actors
Witnesses
Case Theory
Evidence of Material Facts
Evidence for and against Material Facts
Legal Argument
Legal Rules
Legal Source Material
Loose Thoughts
Network Manager (I suggest you begin by using Revolution Player to run this stack.)
Possibilities
Elimination of Possibilities
Questions & Issues
Raw Evidence
Records
Actor Scenario
Case Scenario
Tangible ("Real") Evidence
Actor Time Line
Case Time Line
Time Line for Tangible Evidence
Witness Time Line
Narrative, Story-Telling, and Rhetoric
Investigation and Proof Time Line
Witness Credibility
Probative Value (a/k/a "Argument from Evidence to Factual Hypothesis," or "Factual Inference" proper)

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You can run the above stacks with Revolution Player. (To download a non-Windows-operating-system player, go here.)

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N.B. Did you notice that time plays an essential role in many of the evidence marshaling strategies found above?

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A Timely Reminder of a Masterpiece about the History of Probability

It is often said that the history of probability begins in the eighteenth century, perhaps in the seventeenth century. The following masterful and sweeping survey of the history of probability (in many fields, including law) sets the record straight:

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The dynamic evidence page

Coming soon: the law of evidence on Spindle Law