Week 12 Autopsy: The coroner's inquest

Week 12 — presenting the finished case to the class and defending your verdict under cross-examination, capstone of the semester.

12 October 2026

Before the session#

Prepare a ten-minute case presentation: the specimen, the strongest two or three pieces of evidence, and the verdict. Everything else you found this semester is backup material for the questions, not part of the pitch.

In the session#

You present to the room as a jury. Renata and Desmond, and anyone else who wants in, cross-examine: the landlord’s-alibi test gets checked, the survivorship-bias addendum from week 10 gets checked, and any claim that sounds more confident than its source supports gets pushed on. A verdict that survives real pushback is worth more than one that was never challenged.

Afterwards#

A final mark on the Coroner’s Inquest, and — for anyone whose specimen’s story turns out to generalise — an invitation to write it up properly for next year’s incoming cohort, since one useful thing this course can leave behind is a growing library of restaurants that taught somebody something.