The formula I mentioned two weeks ago is about obtaining successful results when the phenomena is repeated over time and space, keeping variables constant. In the legal context the 'phenomenon' is the 'legal' process itself. Keeping variables constant is keeping the skills and technicques of the cross-examiner the same, are repeated over time and space - to obtain successful results.

This means that highly skilled litigation cross-examiners will obtain the same cause-effect results with the same witness being cross-examined, using highly skilled techniques. Of course, it may not be perfect scientific process, because of the intervening human condition such as perjury - which leads to a prison sentence.