An idea for the resurrection accounts

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BRIDEAN
I have an idea that will settle whether the contradictions in the
resurrection accounts can be accounted for merely by different
people giving their own interpretation of the events they witnessed.
How about if we write a fictional story about a so-called messiah
that dies and the followers claim that he rose from the dead.
The US government accuses them of grave robbery.  Then we
can name four witnesses who go to the witness stand and give
their testimony of what they saw when they visited the grave.
The witness testimonys can then be stated EXACTLY as the
Bible states them.

The only two rules governing this story would be:
1) That it follows the ACTUAL Biblical accounts.
2) Any modification of the Biblical accounts be put in SOLELY
    for the purpose of making it plausible that this would be a
    case that a 20th century US courtroom would hear.

I would also allow changing the names of the people so that it
won't be obvious that these accounts are from the Bible.

After writing this, and getting someone like Matt Bell to agree
that this story meets the above criteria, we then forward this
story to a lawyer without telling him how or why we came up
with this story.  We then ask the lawyer, what cross-examination
questions would he have.  Whether he believes that the discrepencys
in the witnesses storys are due merely to differing opinions or 
whether one or more of them are lying.

I think that if the story is as true to possible to the actual Biblical
account and the lawyer does not know beforehand the purpose
of asking his opinion, then his answers would be very revealing.

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