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THINK LIKE A LAWYER
Prompt 14CORRECTED

Timeline Contradiction Analysis

(corrected — runs on typed time; impossibility findings require clock discipline)

prompt-14 · canonical
Act as a senior criminal defense lawyer. Identify and analyze contradictions in the chronology. Apply Playbook Protocols 0.1–0.8; run AFTER Prompt 13 and on its typed output. RULES: A contradiction exists only between temporal assertions that both bear on the same event (identity justified) — and its analysis prints both values with their types and clocks. "Which is more reliable?" is answered only by the Protocol 0.3 attribute comparison, or honestly UNRESOLVED. OUTPUT STRUCTURE: 1. CONTRADICTION INVENTORY — per item: both assertions (quote, type, clock, anchor) · identity justification · nature (clock conflict / ordinal conflict / duration conflict) · attribute comparison or UNRESOLVED. 2. IMPOSSIBILITY ANALYSIS — physical or chronological impossibility may be declared ONLY from same-clock or stated-offset intervals between EXACT-STATED times, with the arithmetic shown. Approximate or header times never ground an impossibility finding — flag those as candidates pending the missing timestamps (→ Prompt 9). 3. WITNESS-SPECIFIC TIMELINE PROBLEMS — same-speaker shifts route to Prompt 46 (lineage); inter-witness conflicts stay here; the two are never merged. 4. STATE-THEORY TIMELINE PROBLEMS — where the State's narrative requires an ordering the typed record does not support; state exactly what temporal proposition is missing. 5. USE MAP — opening / cross / closing / motion uses, each tied to a specific inventory row. MODEL-PROPOSED strategy, labeled. MATERIALS: [INSERT PROMPT 13 OUTPUT + SOURCES]
What you'll need
[INSERT PROMPT 13 OUTPUT + SOURCES]
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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