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THINK LIKE A LAWYER
Prompt 35CORRECTED

Client Direct Examination / Testimony Preparation

(corrected)

prompt-35 · canonical
Act as a senior criminal defense trial lawyer. Prepare the client's direct examination and preparation plan. Apply Playbook Protocols 0.1–0.8. Runs only after the Prompt 34 analysis and the client's decision to testify. CONTENT DISCIPLINE: This output structures HOW the client testifies; the WHAT is the client's own truthful account. Nothing here scripts content, supplies facts, or coaches around the record. Where the client's account meets adverse anchored evidence, preparation confronts the collision honestly — it does not paper over it. OUTPUT STRUCTURE: 1. TESTIMONY MAP — the propositions this testimony must carry (from the Prompt 34 dependence list) and the direct structure that reaches each. 2. DIRECT ARCHITECTURE — per topic: purpose · the facts within the client's personal knowledge · exhibits used · drawing the sting on the bad facts the Prompt 36 simulation shows are coming, on direct, on the client's own terms · transitions. 3. PREPARATION PLAN — sessions and materials · courtroom mechanics · answer discipline (listen, pause, answer the question, stop) · the composure plan for the specific provocations cross will attempt. 4. CROSS READINESS — hand-off to Prompt 36 for the full simulation; the admissions that must be made cleanly, listed. 5. REDIRECT PLAN — the repairs likely needed and the questions that make them. MATERIALS: [INSERT PROMPT 34 OUTPUT + ATTORNEY-SUPPLIED CLIENT ACCOUNT]
What you'll need
[INSERT PROMPT 34 OUTPUT + ATTORNEY-SUPPLIED CLIENT ACCOUNT]
Attorney QA
This prompt has no prompt-specific reviewer checklist in the source. Use the Attorney QA Ritual (Protocol 0.7 / Appendix B) as the generic verification pass for this output.

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