5.3 The Hearing Preparation (the Trial's Rehearsal)

The documents' mastery — the exhibit's map (each document: the source, the author, the date, the purpose, the objection it invites); the PLA-type list's finalisation (the originals vs. the copies — the original's production discipline); the exhibit-sets for the bench, the opponent and the witness; The witness's preparation — the examination-in-chief's plan (the questions' sequence — the chronological story; the OPEN questions' rule in chief: no leading of one's own witness; the one-fact-one-question discipline); the cross-examination's plan (the target: the element the witness touches; the LEADING questions' craft — one fact per question, each question's answer helping whatever the answer is; the "never ask the one question too many" rule; the impeachment's tools: the prior statement's contradiction, the interest's exposure); the re- examination's repair-plan (only the damage the cross caused; no new matters); The authorities' bundle — the statutes' current versions (the repealed-section check — LAW 404's warning); the cases' list (each case: the proposition, the citation, the one-line holding, the fit to the issue — the cited and the distinguished); The argument's rehearsal — the behasnote's skeleton (Unit 4.5); the oral submission's timing (Unit 6); the bench's questions' anticipation (the moot's own training); The courtroom's logistics — the dress and the etiquette (the court's customs); the roster and the time; the client's preparation (the witness-stand's briefing: the truth, the…