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:

Student Misery at Harvard Law School -- Now in the Past?

"For most of the past fifty years, attending Harvard Law School was a miserable experience for the majority of its students." Kevin K. Washburn, "Elana Kagan and the Miracle at Harvard," 61 Journal of Legal Education 67, 67 (August, 2011).
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EDITOR'S CHOICE

The following articles have been selected by the editor are available FREE online. Click on the article titles below to read them.

Discussion paper: The structure and the logic of proof in trials 
Peter Tillers 
Volume 10, Issue 1, March 2011 

Irreversibility 
Cass R. Sunstein 
Volume 9 Issue 3-4 September-December 2010

What ‘Strengthening Forensic Science’ today means for tomorrow: DNA exceptionalism and the 2009 NAS Report 
Prof. E. Murphy 
Volume 9, Number 1, April 2010 

Height measurements in images: how to deal with measurement uncertainty correlated to actual height 
Gerda Edelman and Ivo Alberink 
Volume 9, Number 2, June 2010 

Is the civil ‘higher standard of proof ’ a coherent concept? 
Ennis McBride 
Volume 8, Number 4, December 2009

Painting the target around the matching profile: the Texas sharpshooter fallacy in forensic DNA interpretation 
William C. Thompson 
Volume 8, Number 3, September 2009

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Proportionality and Quantitative Justice

• SPECIAL ISSUE: Proportionality and Quantitative Justice

Volume 10 Issue 3 September 2011

Articles

• • Rainhard Bengez, 
  • Scott Brewer, 
  • Giovanni Sartor, 
  • and Vern Walker

  Proportionality and quantitative justice. An introduction to the special issue

  Law, Probability and Risk (2011) 10(3): 161-165 doi:10.1093/lpr/mgr014
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  • Peter Tillers

  Trial by mathematics—reconsidered

  Law, Probability and Risk (2011) 10(3): 167-173 doi:10.1093/lpr/mgr011
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  • Scott Brewer

  Logocratic method and the analysis of arguments in evidence

  Law, Probability and Risk (2011) 10(3): 175-202 doi:10.1093/lpr/mgr013
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  • Douglas Walton

  Teleological argumentation to and from motives

  Law, Probability and Risk (2011) 10(3): 203-223 doi:10.1093/lpr/mgr012
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  • Joseph L. Gastwirth, 
  • Efstathia Bura, 
  • and Weiwen Miao

  Some important statistical issues courts should consider in their assessment of statistical analyses submitted in class certification motions: implications for Dukes v. Wal-mart

  Law, Probability and Risk (2011) 10(3): 225-263 doi:10.1093/lpr/mgr009
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  • Tommaso Agnoloni, 
  • and Maria-Teresa Sagri

  Balancing rights and values in the Italian Courts: a statistical and conceptual analysis

  Law, Probability and Risk (2011) 10(3): 265-275 doi:10.1093/lpr/mgr010
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Evidence marshaling software MarshalPlan

It's here: the law of evidence on Spindle Law. See also this post and this post.