🧭 Memo Reasoning Mini-Clinic

Using sample excerpts from redacted police reports, trial transcripts, and appeals documents, the teacher models how to turn source notes into memo claims, credibility judgments, and cautious recommendation language. Students annotate a short model memo section, identify where corroboration and contradiction appear, and flag where wording overstates the evidence. They then outline the 3 sections their own team memo must draft next: evidence summary, timeline findings, and recommendation.