Fabricate evidence against the (defendant)

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From: Prosecution of (Trial)


There are no guarantees when matters come to trial. And so, sometimes, it pays to get inventive.

Game Instructions: If successful, this will lower the difficulty of ultimately winning your case – but reduce your final reward.

Unlocked with  exactly 2, ,  Latest Criminal Case,  exactly 0 (This trial takes place under common law.)


Challenge information

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  • 120 - very chancy (41%)
  • 149 - chancy (51%)
  • 178 - modest (61%)
  • 208 - very modest (71%)
  • 237 - low-risk (81%)
  • 266 - straightforward (91%)
  • 292 - straightforward (100%)

Success

"Oh dear, how very damning."

No one can say for sure that that isn't the accused's handwriting. The trick is not to make it too incriminating – but still lurid and specific enough to fire up everyone's imagination.


Failure

Thrown out!

The barrister [...] has the wit to question your evidence: the meticulously forged pages are torn into pieces, sealed in oilcloth, and sunk with weights into the depths of the Evenlode. "That'll be the disallowed evidence room," says the clerk.