08 · Trial
Assemble the trial record the matter already holds.
Witnesses, exhibits, designations, foundation and the order of proof are projected from rows the matter already carries, each with the provenance that put it there.
It assembles what the record holds. It does not author trial law.
The question in the room
“What do I actually have, and what is not yet admissible?”
This is the stage still being built. It assembles what the record holds and it does not yet author trial law: instruction and motion scaffolds carry explicit placeholders for an attorney to supply the authority. None of it appears in the public capability catalogue, and it is not claimed as finished.
How it works
The mechanism, not the promise.
Suggestions that carry their source
Witnesses are drawn from deponents, party entities, declaration signers, retained experts and sponsoring text, each with a line saying which of those put the name there. Exhibits come from hot-coded documents, evidence-ledger citations and transcripts carrying designations.
An exam outline that is a projection, not a generation
The per-witness outline is assembled from six existing row types rather than written by a model, because an outline that invents one document, one date or one prior answer is worse than no outline. The attorney reads it in the room.
A foundation checklist from the rules of evidence
A fixed catalog covering authentication, self-authentication, business and public records, summaries and originals. A model may only map known provenance to an entry in that catalog.
A binder that never becomes a document
The trial notebook exports as work product streamed to the requesting attorney. It is never written to a document row, so it cannot reach the client portal and never enters retrieval.
Second Chair, in the room
ShippedA live deposition lens on glasses, where a one-glance budget is enforced, an unconfirmed citation prints as needing confirmation, and silence is a recorded decision.
backend/src/lib/livedepo/hud.ts
Second Chair on a second platform
ShippedThe same lens on an open hardware stack, in beta.
backend/src/lib/livedepo/streamSocket.ts
Refusals
What it will not do, and why.
- Emit a designation with only one end of the range.
- An accepted designation is court-facing. When either page and line edge cannot be established the passage returns as a refusal with a reason rather than a suggestion, and an end coordinate is never fabricated.
- Let a ruled motion return to an unruled state.
- A ruling may be corrected to another ruling, never back to pre-ruling. An application path must not make a court act disappear.
- Write instruction law or a motion ground.
- Both scaffolds emit explicit placeholders for the attorney to confirm. The scaffold never invents instruction text and never asserts a legal conclusion.
- Stay quiet when an exhibit is offered without foundation.
- The court-mode tripwire fires when the examiner moves to admit an exhibit still marked as proposed, and goes silent once it has been offered or admitted.
One record
Nothing here stands on its own.
What feeds it
- Discovery and the evidence ledger
- Depositions and designations
- The matter brain
What it feeds
- The pretrial order
- The exhibit list
- The trial notebook
Limits
What this does not establish.
- The trial surfaces are scaffolding for an attorney, not a finished practice module, and they are not in the public capability catalogue.
- Live deposition capture depends on hardware the firm supplies, and the second platform is in beta.
Check the work before you believe it.
Run a sample manifest in your own browser, or read where publication refuses for want of evidence.