No surprises on the stand: Pretrial preparation framework for investigators and digital device examiners
Digital evidence can be technically sound and still go wrong at trial. The prosecutor and the examiner each understand a different part of the case. If they don’t sit down together until the day before trial, there’s no time left to fix a mismatched exhibit or a report limitation nobody flagged, and the defense may be the first to point it out.
This eBook explains how to avoid surprises on the stand by catching these issues early, while they can still be fixed.
What you’ll learn:
- Why preparation should happen over several meetings, starting well before trial
- Why an authentic artifact doesn’t automatically prove who created it
- How to trace each critical artifact from the case question to the courtroom exhibit
- What to do when one witness gives both lay and expert testimony
- How prep meetings can trigger disclosure obligations, and where preparation crosses into coaching