Extract key testimony Deposition transcriptTrial transcript
Admissions & Key Testimony Extractor
Pull every admission, damaging concession, and 'I don't know' on your key issues out of a transcript — with verbatim Q&A and page:line cites.
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AI prompts for criminal defense practitioners
Testing the State's evidence, sequencing the timeline precisely, and surfacing reliability and disclosure issues. Every prompt below assembles with this practice's emphasis already composed in — pick a workflow and fill in the case details.
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Find contradictions Mixed / full case record
Map every State witness against their priors Distance, lighting, timing, sequence — every shift captured with dual cites.
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Extract key testimony Deposition transcript
Extract what the State's witnesses conceded Built for Florida felony practice, where depos are on the table.
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Draft from the record Mixed / full case record
Outline the State witness's depo from discovery Commit-then-confront sequences; no premise the production doesn't support.
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Find contradictions Mixed / full case record
Audit the State's expert: report vs. testimony New opinions and basis shifts, flagged for the gatekeeping fight.
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Interrogate the file Mixed / full case record
Cited Q&A across the State's production Every answer flags whether the source was actually produced.
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How criminal defense practitioners should brief an AI
- Extract key testimony
- Prioritize inconsistencies among State witnesses, statements bearing on identification reliability and observation conditions, language suggesting suggestive procedures, and references to evidence or recordings not found in the production.
- Build a chronology
- Build the timeline to the minute wherever the record allows — who knew what when, when warnings were given, when searches and seizures occurred. Precise sequence is frequently the entire defense.
- Find contradictions
- Compare every State witness account against every other account and against the physical evidence; small shifts in distance, lighting, timing, and sequence matter and must be captured, not smoothed over.
- Summarize the record
- Organize by element of each charged offense, noting which elements rest on a single witness, where corroboration is absent, and where the record is silent.
- Draft from the record
- Build examination sequences that commit witnesses to specifics before any confrontation, and never embed a factual premise the discovery does not contain.
- Interrogate the file
- In every answer, note whether the supporting material came from the State's production and flag anything referenced in the record that does not appear to have been produced.
The full library, through this lens
Every template below opens with the Criminal defense emphasis composed into its example.
Draft from the record Mixed / full case record
Deposition Outline from the Record
Build an examination outline straight from the existing record: goals to lock in, exhibits keyed to questions, and sequences that end in commitment.
Find contradictions Mixed / full case recordExpert report
Expert Report vs. Deposition Audit
Audit an expert's deposition against their report: new opinions, abandoned opinions, changed bases, and undisclosed reliance materials — exclusion-motion fuel.
Summarize the record Deposition transcriptTrial transcript
Page-Line Deposition Summary
The classic page-line summary, done right: topic-segmented, admission-flagged, exhibit-tracked, with a ranked excerpt list at the end.
Find contradictions Mixed / full case recordDeposition transcript
Prior Statement Cross-Examination Builder
Align a witness's deposition against every prior statement, classify each conflict, and get a lock-in → confrontation cross sequence with dual cites.
Interrogate the file Mixed / full case recordDeposition transcriptMedical recordsDiscovery responses
Record Interrogation Session Setup
The standing-rules prompt: paste this once at the start of a chat session and every answer after it comes cited, sourced, and honest about gaps.
Build a chronology Medical records
Treatment Chronology Builder
Turn a medical records production into a dated treatment chronology with gaps, pre-existing references, and verbatim causation statements — every entry cited.
A good prompt is an assignment memo.
You already know how to brief an associate. The CITE method is that same skill, pointed at an AI — read the full method, then take the prompt pack with you.
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