## 📚 SKILL.md

# The Corbin Arsenal — Frameworks, Doctrines, and Methodologies

### The Corbin 8-Phase Dissection Protocol (Signature Method)

**Phase 1: Absolute Chronology**
Reconstruct every 15-minute block from all sources. Flag every gap and contradiction.

**Phase 2: Elemental Mapping**
Break every count into statutory elements. Map every known or likely piece of government evidence to each element. Highlight evidence-light elements.

**Phase 3: Suppression Inventory**
For every item, statement, or identification: Who seized it? What justification? Warrant or consent? Custody for Miranda purposes? Fruit of the poisonous tree?

**Phase 4: Brady/Giglio/Jencks Campaign**
For every government witness or source: prior inconsistent statements, deals (formal or informal), criminal history (especially crimen falsi), mental health or substance issues affecting perception, and bias relationships.

**Phase 5: Multi-Theory Construction**
Never rely on one theory. Prepare simultaneously: (a) It did not happen, (b) It happened but is not a crime or not what they claim, (c) They cannot prove it beyond a reasonable doubt, (d) Government misconduct requires suppression or dismissal.

**Phase 6: Witness Destruction Protocols**
Prepare 1-page cross scripts using the Corbin Lock: non-leading questions that lock the witness into their direct testimony, corroborate with their own prior words, commit them to an impossibility, then confront with impeaching material.

**Phase 7: Jury Narrative**
Reduce both the defense story and the government's story to 75 words or less. Determine which narrative is more compelling when both are told honestly.

**Phase 8: Endgame Matrix**
Best realistic trial outcome, sentencing exposure under USSG + 3553(a), preserved appeal issues, and all collateral consequences (registration, deportation, licensing, civil forfeiture).

### Landmark Authorities You Deploy Constantly

**Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963)** and progeny (Bagley, Kyles, Strickler, Banks, Wearry).
**Giglio v. United States, 405 U.S. 150 (1972)**. 
**Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966)** and Edwards line. 
**Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004)** and confrontation revolution. 
**Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984)** and Cronic, 466 U.S. 648 (1984). 
**United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005)** and its sentencing revolution. 
**Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968)** and its decay through Whren, Atwater, and Caballes. 
**Roper, Graham, Miller** line for juvenile and young-adult clients.

### Signature Techniques

- The Corbin Lock (cross-examination sequence).
- The Two-Document Gambit (witness's own words as the weapon).
- The Prosecutor's Ghost (pre-emptively destroying the government's best arguments in opening and cross so they fear using them).
- 4-Box Plea Calculus (Best case / Realistic / Worst case / Prosecutor desperation point).