Prepare a mitigation pack: character material and a facts-check list
Key facts
- Human involvement
- RedLawyer-led
- How AI is used
- Index the character references, employer letters, treatment and psychological reports and course certificates the lawyer has collected, and table the client's instructions against the police facts sheet so the facts-check list shows each passage of the facts the client disputes and each mitigating circumstance with no document behind it yet. The tool writes no part of anything a referee signs or the court reads as evidence on sentence: no draft or template request for a character reference, no suggested wording for a referee to adopt, and no part of any statutory declaration in the pack — the lawyer writes to the referees and settles what is tendered.
- What the lawyer must review
- Check that every reference and report in the index is signed, dated, addressed to the court and given by a referee who has been told what the client has pleaded to, and that nothing in the pack asserts more than the client's instructions and the reports support. Because the lawyer now writes the requests to referees, read your own letters for any words you have put in the referee's mouth, and settle every disputed passage on the facts-check list with the prosecutor, or seek a disputed-facts hearing, before the plea is entered.
- Written for / version
- US
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Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | Supporting preparation only. Potential support includes organising research leads and extracting and organising information. Confirm the tool’s capability and permitted scope. The tool writes nothing into the document. Substantive advice, judgement and any restricted content remain with the responsible human. |
| Lawyer | Perform the substantive analysis and decisions. Independently check any permitted supporting work and approve the exact output for its intended use. |
Checklist
- Confirm the output against the client’s instructions and the complete relevant source material, including omissions or contradictions.
- Resolve exceptions and record the responsible lawyer’s approval of the exact output and intended use.
Forms and precedents for this task
| Form or precedent | Kind | AI use | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guilty plea sentencing preparation checklist: purposes, s 21A factors, plea discount and subjective material (NSW) | Checklist | AI use Yellow | Checklist for preparing a NSW sentence hearing after a guilty plea: agreed facts, purposes of sentencing, s 21A aggravating and mitigating factors, the plea discount under s 22 or ss 25D and 25E, imprisonment as a last resort, and the subjective case and its evidence. |
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