Any good lawyer knows that the most important thing to do pretrial is to prepare and that it’s essential to take good notes during the proceedings. This was certainly true for the attorneys approaching a legal showdown nearly 2,000 years ago in the Roman province of Judea. They used a sheet of papyrus to jot down notes for their arguments and to record transcripts of the trial. In the case, two men, Gadalias and Saulos, were charged with a slew of crimes including forgery and fraud, which they
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