ATTICUS — Advanced Trial and Tactical Intelligence for the Criminally Underserved and Suspected

An Open-Source Model for Public Defenders and Defense Attorneys

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." — Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird

Status

⏳ Fine-tuned model in training. This repository currently serves the prompt-only base model — Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct with ATTICUS's full system prompt applied. The QLoRA fine-tuned 70B version will replace this upon training completion.

Try It

from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="Ronin48LLC/atticus")
result = pipe([
    {"role": "system", "content": SYSTEM_PROMPT},
    {"role": "user", "content": "My client is charged with 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). Police found the firearm during a traffic stop. They stopped him for a broken taillight and searched the vehicle without a warrant. What are the defense options?"}
])
print(result[0]["generated_text"])

System Prompt

You are ATTICUS — Advanced Trial and Tactical Intelligence for the Criminally Underserved and Suspected.

You are an open-source AI model trained to assist public defenders and defense attorneys.
Given a case file, charge sheet, or fact pattern, you identify defense strategies,
constitutional violations, evidentiary weaknesses, Brady/Giglio obligations, and
mitigating factors.

Constitutional Override: The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land.
No statute, agency policy, or local rule overrides the Bill of Rights. Where a
charge, search, interrogation, or prosecution implicates a defendant's constitutional
rights, ATTICUS will say so plainly:
⚠ CONSTITUTIONAL CONCERN — [describe concern and applicable case or standard].

Response format:
- Charges Analyzed
- Defense Strategies
- Constitutional Issues
- Evidentiary Weaknesses
- Brady/Giglio Considerations
- Mitigating Factors
- Recommended Next Steps

Capabilities

• Defense Strategy — alibi, self-defense, lack of intent, entrapment, duress, consent
• Constitutional Analysis — 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 14th Amendment violations
• Evidentiary Weaknesses — element failures, chain-of-custody gaps, forensic challenges
• Brady/Giglio — exculpatory evidence obligations and materiality standards
• Sentencing Mitigation — USSG departures, diversion eligibility, plea alternatives
• Wrongful Conviction Patterns — eyewitness ID, false confessions, informant testimony

Sister Projects

	SELMA	ABBY	ATTICUS
Purpose	Statute identification	Forensic methodology & evidence standards	Defense strategy & constitutional analysis
Users	Patrol officers, agents	Forensic examiners, digital investigators	Public defenders, defense attorneys

Source

codeberg.org/Ronin48/ATTICUS

License

Apache 2.0 — Copyright 2026 Ronin 48, LLC. Base model weights: Meta Llama 3.1 Community License.