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Showing posts with label Direct Examination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Direct Examination. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Be a Good Advocate. Stop Talking and Listen

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Most short duration advocacy courses (and I suspect many College semester long ‘Trial Advocacy’ programs) focus on opening statements...
Sunday, February 24, 2013

Courtroom Advocacy for Beginners:shaping an online approach

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There are various reasons for more and better use of online resources in our advocacy training.  For example, lack of teaching space, short...
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Sex Scenes in the Court Room: not for beginners or the faint hearted.

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At a typical sexual assault trial there’s two people who’d rather not be there: the alleged victim and the alleged accused.  From now on I’...
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Friday, March 23, 2012

In Praise of Simple, Direct, Factual Questions

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While browsing through the blogosphere this morning, I encountered a post in praise of Brian Lamb's questioning style on the C-SPAN Book...
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Introducing Good Advocacy - the mental and performance skills

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Good advocacy requires a mix of mental and performance skills. The latter are seen and heard as advocates examine, cross-examine, make obje...
Monday, October 17, 2011

Listening: Impossible to Teach?

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This post is from Judge Christina Habas of Denver, Colorado.                 Thinking back to a time when I failed to understand the importa...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Teaching Advocates to Listen

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I'm always intrigued by the transformation that occurs when advocacy students conduct their first witness examinations. Until the momen...
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Sunday, May 15, 2011

A Short Introduction to Direct – a student guide.

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What we and our witness are trying to do on direct . 1. Recreate with words and visual aids a little bit of history. We want to take our ...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010

The Value of Open-Ended Questions: A Drill

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The following blog entry and drill is courtesy of Jack Nevin. Jack is a trial judge in Pierce County, Washington; an adjunct professor of t...
Monday, December 20, 2010

Using Movie Clips to Improve Direct Examination

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I'd like to follow up on Hugh Selby's excellent post on bringing a 3-D element to direct examination. The artificial conventions o...
Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Deconstructing Studs: A Direct Examination Exercise

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One of my favorite authors is the now-deceased historian Studs Terkel. He was famous for his oral histories, including such classics as The...
Monday, November 22, 2010

Direct Examination – Changing the Story from Plainly Dull to Participant 3D.

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--> Whether from the public gallery, or the bench, or just watching our students ‘have a go’ there is a depressing ...
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Our Students as Teachers and Critics

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I admit to being a slow thinker, rather slower than those witty, quick come back people who keep a party crowd, a pack of journalists at a...
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Monday, September 6, 2010

More on Language ,Word Choice, and Persuasion

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by Hon. Robert L. McGahey, Jr. I very much enjoyed Joe Lester’s recent post (available here ) about language. It made me think of some prob...
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Friday, September 3, 2010

Word Choice and Persuasion

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This post was written by Professor Joe Lester, Director of Advocacy Programs & Professor of Law at Faulkner University in Montgomery, Al...
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Thursday, July 8, 2010

Teaching Cross-Examination with a Trial Rhythm

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I've been teaching cross-examination as a stand-alone module in my advocacy courses for the past several years by assigning students to ...