◈◉◈Nadia was assaulted
- KEEP ONE CLEAR THEME: Nadia was assaulted in her own home. Return to that point throughout the trial and let her tell her story.
- SIMPLIFY YOUR NOTES: Prepare one page of bullet points for each person you question. Use your longer preparation document as a reference.
- BEGIN WITH NADIA: Let her describe what happened, including what she personally saw, heard, and experienced. Give her room to explain her background and character.
- QUESTION EDWARD ONE POINT AT A TIME: Establish where he was when Nadia opened the door, how he entered, what happened with his shoes, and when Nadia appeared with the broom. Start with details he may readily agree to, then examine contradictions.
- SAVE THE LIP-TOUCHING QUESTION: Kael suggested holding that question until a further round of questioning after Jessika has tried to explain Edward’s account, if the court permits it.
- ASK FOR SPECIFIC OBSERVATIONS: For anyone who arrived afterward, ask exactly what they saw and heard—who was present, where they stood, and what was said. Avoid vague descriptions such as “the aftermath.”
- SPEAK WITH BACTU AND SELIA BEFOREHAND: Find out what they personally know about Nadia’s character and what they observed that evening.
- HAVE BACTU CONFIRM HIS STATEMENT: Kael suggested having Nadia recount what she heard Bactu say, then asking the court to briefly call him to confirm it before continuing with Nadia. His preferred approach was live testimony rather than simply reading the statement from a report.
- CLARIFY JESSIKA’S ROLE: Kael questioned whether she could testify while also acting as Edward’s advocate. That point needs the Magistrate’s ruling under Turmus procedure.
- KEEP YOUR CLOSING: He thought your closing statement was strong and did not need changing.
- STAY CALM AND LET THE RP DEVELOP: Do not over-rehearse. Slow down, take a breath, and ask others to slow down when needed. Use short, clear questions so the court can follow each point.
These were Kael’s suggested tactics; the Magistrate decides what questioning and testimony the court allows.
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[3:51 AM] Kati Evans: Tal Dom
[3:52 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: TAl Kati, I got up early
[3:52 AM] Kati Evans: smiles
[3:52 AM] Kati Evans: I see that.
[3:52 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: I hope you slept well
[3:52 AM] Kati Evans: I did though it was a bit short.
[3:52 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: at least five?
[3:53 AM] Kati Evans: Hum, let me think.
[3:55 AM] Kati Evans: It was just after midnight here and I was woke up at 3:30... that would not make 5 hours.
[3:55 AM] Kati Evans: Looks like there will be a nap in my future today.
[3:56 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: here is my advise: one: have theme (Nadia was assaulted) mention that theme often, let Nadia tell her story. as for Edward, a few well times jabs that expose him, the shoe removal, the touching on lips, those are details that ring true. it wl shake him up to face them. but set those two up as traps, ambush. talk about a story he wants to tell then when he is relax, boom, why did you remove your shoes when you went into Nadia's apartment/ that forks him, in the apt no shoes.
[3:57 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: naps are good
[3:58 AM] Kati Evans: Did you I show you what I did for the preparation for this?
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[3:59 AM] Kati Evans: https://ladykatievansrecords.blogspot.com/2026/10/plan-for-nadias-defense.html
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[4:00 AM] Kati Evans: This is what I did.
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[4:02 AM] Kati Evans: Welcome back
[4:02 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: ty what did i miss oh let me look
[4:04 AM] Kati Evans: That was my prep document
[4:05 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: ok you have a great deal of material there, you need to prune it to practical use. not five questions. one. start with a point you want to prove: he entered her house uninvited. Presumably Nadia testifies first for her freedom is at stake, and she frames. so first "you complimented Nadia's decore when you went inside, right/'
[4:05 AM] Kati Evans: Yes I like it and it is distinctive.
[4:05 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: yes i am reading go open
[4:06 AM] Kati Evans: Sadly she actually changed houses between.
[4:06 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: you have everything you need, it is all there and it is what will be your best resource. but have a one page cheat sheet for each witness, that is what you talk off
[4:07 AM] Kati Evans: Hum, a witness list. Guess I got more work to do.
[4:07 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: it's possible to over rehearse. she's good witness. but the key is Edward's cross and that is an unknown. so you have a lot gathered, what are the three questions that when asked would devestate Deward
[4:08 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: are you even listening to me? I'm a highly paid trail attorney giving you free litigation advice
[4:08 AM] Kati Evans: Oh? Which three do you think?
[4:08 AM] Kati Evans: I am very much listening to you.
[4:09 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: seeing Nadia open door and dump basin, tie him to her facts while he is still willing to agree with you
[4:10 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: 1. he was outside she opened door 2. he went inside and took off his shoes and noticed how nice it was 3. she came in with a broom. used those three struts to build a case that he knowingly trespassed with intent to commit serious bodiy harm. don't ask about touching the lips until recross after Jessika tries to rehabilitate
[4:11 AM] Kati Evans: Oh, do that later?
[4:11 AM] Kati Evans: Ok
[4:13 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: peopel can only process so much, you know this case cold, they gon't you have to spoon feed. yeah, hold the killer question until re cross, after Jessika tries to explain, they won't know the lips touch yet, here is how you get it in. so you admit you went inside and took off your shoes and then Nadia comes in with the broom and Jessika explained some of that just now. What about Nadia's accusatinon you touched her lips?
[4:13 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: your closing is great i would not touch it.
[4:14 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: think of it as sppon feeding. the witness gets sppon fed and the judge and audience sees and gets it, slow walk it
[4:14 AM] Kati Evans: Thanks
[4:16 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: you want to prove two things, Nadia felt assaulted, her house was intruded upon and he touched her. second, poke holes in Edeard's creciiblity and try to agitatte him into an outburst on the witness stand that is fair game
[4:18 AM] Kati Evans: Oh good, this helps
[4:20 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: have you heard anything about Edward or his claims?
[4:22 AM] Kati Evans: He was going to claim that she seduced him with slave-like behavior and that she took off his shoes.
[4:23 AM] Kati Evans: But not details beyound that.
[4:23 AM] Kati Evans: Oh and he is saying that he was invited in.
[4:24 AM] Kaellaed Rhode chuckles, "well the best way to expose a liar is to trip them up untangle his story. if he admits she came in caarrying a broom, then how did she take off his shoes? things like that but discrete details you can use like a knife, a thousand little cuts exposing his lies
[4:25 AM] Kati Evans: Ok
[4:25 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: are you too tired to talk
[4:26 AM] Kati Evans: No, just really thinking about what you are saying. Trying to remember it and repeat it in my head.
[4:26 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: it's fun, you will have fun, don't over think it and pare things down to one page and bullet points and let the rp lplay out
[4:26 AM] Kati Evans: This is great stuff.
[4:27 AM] Kati Evans: Ok
[4:27 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: well you want to make your star witness shine, a good story about her past and hopes and all that the house she picked then invaded by a rude and boorish man
[4:28 AM] Kati Evans: I like that the Ubar knows her well and would make a good character witness for her.
[4:28 AM] Kati Evans: Who argues with a Ubar?
[4:30 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: Jessika will have to, SElia is your best character witness and her charcter is up for grabs in the claims so you can introduce character testimony for her the alleged victim does not have the character of a sliut. by the way, she's Ubar'as BFF you just heard
[4:33 AM] Kati Evans: So the Ubara and Ubar are good for Nadia's character
[4:33 AM] Kati Evans: Should I talk to them then before this starts?
[4:34 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: yes you said BActu knows her well I assume Selia too. Yes. talk to them both
[4:34 AM] Kati Evans: Ok, that will be todays assignment.
[4:36 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: how do you know BActu knows Nadia well
[4:38 AM] Kati Evans: He said something ... it is in something I got.
[4:38 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: oh don't dig it up, he told you?
[4:40 AM] Kati Evans: Bactu says it directly in the log at 9:30 P.M. SLT:
“I have known Lady Nadia for a long time and this is the first I have heard her being accused as being Lusty.”
[4:42 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: you could not get better character testimony than that. Yes talk to Bactu, a limited inquiry, based on his personal knowledge he has never heard Nadia called lusty
[4:46 AM] Kati Evans: How much do you ask those who witnessed the event?
[4:46 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: people saw it
[4:47 AM] Kati Evans: saw the right after
[4:47 AM] Kati Evans: when she came out to get help
[4:47 AM] Kati Evans: a slave first, then jessika, then the Ubara and Ubar.
[4:48 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: Jessika can't be a wtiness and advocate how much did Ubar and Ubara see
[4:48 AM] Kati Evans: She is the one that did the incident report
[4:51 AM] Kati Evans: I thought that was odd, but was did not find out until I was assigned to replace Trent who could not do at the time the trial was scheduled for.
[4:51 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: be that as it may, but she can't be an advocate and testify in the same case. vouching. use Ubar and Ubara, when did they get to the seen?
[4:51 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: she can advocate, she can have witnessed the incident, but she can't testify and be advocate.
[4:51 AM] Kati Evans: Not long after her.
[4:51 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: what did they see?
[4:54 AM] Kati Evans: Selia arrived 10 mins after Jessika
[4:54 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: again, what did they see
[4:54 AM] Kati Evans: https://ladykatievansrecords.blogspot.com/2026/10/legal-clerk-ledger-of-work-completed.html Time line is about half way down.
[4:54 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: no
[4:55 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: you tell me you are a terrible witness, skip jessika, what did Bactu and Selia see?
[4:55 AM] Kati Evans: It grabbed the wrong link
[4:56 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: focus fuck the links and paper work use your mind
[4:57 AM] Kati Evans: They came in after the event and saw the aftemath
[4:58 AM] Kati Evans: The two people telling what happened in their own words and put both in the jail over night.
[4:59 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: that response has no subsance. what event, what aftermath? you have to build a case on facts when Bactu and Selia came to the residence, was the door open or closed, who was inside. that is testimony facts.
[5:01 AM] Kati Evans: The door would have been open with both Nadia and Edward outside telling Jessika what happened when Selia arrived and then Bactu shortly there after.
[5:02 AM] Kati Evans: That is when Bactu made the statement about Nadia's behavior.
[5:02 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: what about when Jessika came by? did Nadia cry out? ws the door open? so nobody saw?
[5:02 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: that's great testimony and Nadia heard it
[5:03 AM] Kati Evans: She has cried out when you left her house and told the salve to get a warrior. None was found and Jessika was the first free that was on the screen
[5:04 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: what? that is all garbled.
[5:04 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: slow down, take a deep breath.
[5:05 AM] Kati Evans: Ok.
[5:05 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: you lead with Nadia, have her desribe the events, up to Bactu coming on the scene and his statement. then you close and call Bactu
[5:05 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: you get him to confirm and recall Nadia.
[5:06 AM] Kati Evans: Ok
[5:06 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: that keeps the Ubar on for a brief time, it bolsters your witness, and then you resume. it's a trick but it should work. normally ubar can't be witness but he knows her. try to get this in my way. if not, you have to finish Nadia, let Jessika cross then call Bactue, it loosed some of the sting
[5:08 AM] Kati Evans: What do I do if Bactu is not there?
[5:09 AM] Kati Evans: Do I read his statement from the report that Jessika gave me as the log is there in that one.
[5:09 AM] Kati Evans: ??
[5:09 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: so get Nadia to repeat what Ubar said, then tellr varify judge, "your honor, I would like to interrupt Nadia's tesimony for the sole purpose of having the Ubar verify if he made the statement, yes or no, then i will conclude my direct of Nadia and Lady Jessika can cross ecamin
[5:09 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: no you get him live, to verfy Nadia then take him off an dresume
[5:10 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: very dramatic
[5:10 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: the statement is inadmissible hearsay if offered for the truth.
[5:11 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: Jesika knows Ubar said it, right, in a report. key is to get him to verify then dismiss and resume
[5:11 AM] Kati Evans: So he needs to be there
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[5:12 AM] Kati Evans: Then dismiss and resume?
[5:12 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: good grief yes but if not then you just get Nadia to testify to waht she heard. get it in but through Bactu is the gold standart
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[5:13 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: yes you want to verify she is not lying about that one statement, get bactu up, you heard my client, Ubar, did you say she's not lusty?
[5:13 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: no further questions for the Ubar, your honor, may I resume my direct with my client
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[5:15 AM] Kati Evans: Ok
[5:15 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: the reason is that one Nadia says that Bactu said that he's be surprised about her being lusty, or whatever he said, that raises the bar and you need to verify that bit of testimony, ask to pause, cal ubar to verify, then resume
[5:16 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: pause and tutn to the court, your honor, my client has tesifited that the Ubar was there and made a statement, I'd like to pause my direct examinatio of Nadia and call the Ubar for one question, did he say that, yes or no, and then I would ask the Ubar be dismissed from the stand and I would resume my quetioning of my client
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[5:17 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: I bet 10 gold BActu can't do just yes or no
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[5:18 AM] Kati Evans: Oh, you think he will talk more about her?
[5:18 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: yes, knowing him but just relax,you have to be calm i court
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[5:20 AM] Kati Evans: So if they get ahead of me do I just ask that they slow down a bit?
[5:20 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: you will be great, Nadia is a sweet woman, and Bactue is your ace in the hole
[5:20 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: always
[5:20 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: when they speed up we slow down
[5:20 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: when they are confuse, we exploit
[5:20 AM] Kati Evans: Good to know
[5:20 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: when they slow down we speed up
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[5:21 AM] Kati Evans: OH
[5:21 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: slow is smooth, smooth is fas
[5:21 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: slow is smooth, smooth is fast
[5:21 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: if you are confident, time slows, your actions are smoth, smooth actions are fast
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[5:22 AM] Kati Evans: Well I feel a lot better about this now that we have talked. I am impressed, you are more amazing then I realized.
[5:23 AM] Kati Evans: ... and I think very highly of you to start with.
[5:23 AM] Kaellaed Rhode smiles, I have been at it for 37 years now, I am very good at trials
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[5:24 AM] Kati Evans: This really helped me figure this all out.
[5:24 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: and, thanks in a lot of ways to SL, I am very tech savy and that is important now
[5:24 AM] Kati Evans: I am way more prepared than I ever was.
[5:25 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: I' happy to consult, it's my forte, trial prep
[5:25 AM] Kati Evans: I can see that. This is great stuff. You have made it so less scary.
[5:26 AM] Kati Evans: Last time I was so scared I was almost sick.
[5:26 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: smiles good that's my numero uno job keep Kati less stressed
[5:26 AM] Kati Evans: Well you have done an amazing job at that this morning.
[5:27 AM] Kaellaed Rhode chuckles, "good the day is starting off well then"
[5:27 AM] Kati Evans: Very well
[5:27 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: ok i better get going with my day
[5:28 AM] Kati Evans: I admire you
[5:28 AM] Kati Evans: Thank you so much for this time today.
[5:28 AM] Kati Evans: You made a BIG difference in the rest of my day.
[5:28 AM] Kaellaed Rhode: of course my pleasure! I love this stuff
[5:28 AM] Kati Evans: I can see why
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