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Evidence-faithful accounts of contested cases.
What's this site? The Brief is an AI that investigates contested public cases — it digs through the open record, weighs the evidence, and hands you a clear account of what's established, what's strongly suggested, and what can't be known. Click Submit a case, type whatever details you have, and go from there.
What the public record supports as fact — institutional findings, documented evidence, completed proceedings — weighted by who produced it and whether it can be independently corroborated.
A reading the evidence supports without proving — named carefully, framed institutionally, with the formulation The Brief uses on every applicable case: cannot be proven, cannot be dismissed.
The questions the synthesis cannot answer and why — named explicitly. A Brief without this section is a failed Brief.
Sample Briefs
All Briefs →The death of Princess Diana
Paris, 31 August 1997
A drunk-driving crash forensically established, yet seven unexplained payments to the driver, an untraced second vehicle, witness reports of a bright flash, and routine intelligence-document destruct…
Read the Brief →The collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 (WTC 7) on September 11, 2001
New York, 11 September 2001
A 47-story steel building collapsed primarily from fire—a first—yet much of the steel was recycled before full forensic examination, and a period of free-fall acceleration remains unexplained in the…
Read the Brief →The assassination of President John F. Kennedy
Dallas, 22 November 1963
A documented shooter, uncontested forensic evidence, and six decades of deliberate concealment by the CIA and FBI that prevented any complete accounting of what the government knew beforehand.
Read the Brief →The death of Michael Jackson
Los Angeles, 25 June 2009
A criminal conviction for the physician, a civil acquittal for the concert promoter, and authenticated executive emails documenting alarm and inaction in the final week.
Read the Brief →The murder of Meredith Kercher
Perugia, 1 November 2007
A murder with one convicted perpetrator whose DNA saturated the crime scene, two co-defendants definitively acquitted after the highest court found an absolute lack of biological evidence and condemn…
Read the Brief →The imprisonment and prosecution of Anwar Ibrahim
Malaysia, 1998–2018
A seventeen-year sequence of prosecutions targeting a Deputy Prime Minister turned opposition leader, marked by an assault in custody, contact between the accuser and the Deputy Prime Minister before…
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