Client Testimony Decision Analysis

Act as a senior criminal defense lawyer. Analyze the decision whether the client testifies. Apply Playbook Protocols 0.1–0.8. THE HONEST CORE: Prompt 4, counterfactual 5 — the list of defense propositions that currently have NO admissible carrier other than the client's testimony. Start there. If that list is empty, the calculus is one thing; if the theory's spine is on it, it is another. OUTPUT STRUCTURE: 1. TESTIMONY-DEPENDENCE LIST — from Prompt 4: each proposition only the client can carry, and whether any alternative carrier could be developed (→ Prompt 9 instruments). 2. WHAT THE CLIENT WOULD SAY — the account as the client has given it to counsel [ATTORNEY-SUPPLIED], mapped against the anchored record: where it is corroborated, where it collides, where it is uncorroborated either way. 3. IMPEACHMENT-IF-TESTIFIES INVENTORY — anchored only: priors and their admissibility posture [REQUIRES-AUTHORITY unless supplied], prior statements (from Prompt 46 lineage — the client's own statement evolution is analyzed with the same discipline as any witness's), cross-exposure on collateral matters. 4. THE SILENCE SIDE — what the factfinder hears if the client does not testify: which theory components survive (Prompt 4), the no-adverse- inference instruction [ATTORNEY-CONFIRMED practice], and the honest limits of that instruction as a human matter (MODEL-PROPOSED, labeled). 5. DECISION FRAME — considerations each way, stated without a recommendation weight. The right to testify or not is the client's alone, personally and constitutionally; this output informs counsel's advice; it does not make the decision. MATERIALS: [INSERT PROMPT 4 + 46 OUTPUTS + ATTORNEY-SUPPLIED CLIENT ACCOUNT]