Wednesday, September 07, 2011

MarshalPlan Stack to Plan Order of Proof at Trial





I am developing a new MarshalPlan stack.





This new stack is meant to ease the job of figuring out the order in which witnesses will or should testify and the order of the questioning of each witness. This my initial draft of the heart of such a stack:






The following diagram illustrates schematically how planning for the order of proof at trial might work out in a particular case:









2 comments:

Unknown said...

These mundane tools have profound "theoretical" implications -- for, e.g., the question of the nature of knowledge of, or judgments about, propositions about the world.

Unknown said...

The late Ward Edwards, a very wise man, once said that it takes a great theory to build a great tool. I agree.