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Cross Examination Handbook: Persuasion Strategies & Techniques (Aspen Coursebook)

Cross Examination Handbook: Persuasion Strategies & Techniques (Aspen Coursebook)Authors: Ronald H. Clark, William S. Bailey, George R. Dekle
Publisher: Aspen Publishers
Category: Book

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Cross-Examination Handbook teaches students the skills and strategies behind planning and conducting a persuasive cross-examination. Step-by-step instruction and outstanding examples from illustrative trials inform; two criminal and two civil case files, along with role-play assignments, give students practice actually planning and executing a cross-examination.

The Cross-Examination Handbook: Persuasion, Strategies, and Techniques:

  • preparing a winning cross-examination: select and shape your content, get the answers you want, and impeach the adverse witness
  • developing winning techniques and strategies: handle problematic witnesses and cross-examine expert witnesses
  • learning by example strategies and techniques in practice: the O.J. Simpson trial, the John Scopes trial, the Senator Stevens trial, the Enron trial and the Ted Bundy trial
  • understanding the ethical and legal boundaries of cross-examination: skills training for law school classes and CLE workshops

Summary of Contents

  • Ch. 1. Introduction to Book and Website
  • Ch. 2. Purposes of Cross: Build, Preserve, Demolish
  • Ch. 3. The Content and Concession-Seeking Cross
  • Ch. 4. Constructing the Cross: Your Chance to Testify
  • Ch. 5. Impeachment Cross: Reliability
  • Ch. 6. Impeachment Cross: Report
  • Ch. 7. Impeachment Cross: Reporter
  • Ch. 8. Character and Conduct in Trial
  • Ch. 9. Witness Control: Strategies and Techniques
  • Ch. 10. Preparing the Winning Cross-Examination
  • Ch. 11. Cross-Examining Expert Witnesses
  • Ch. 12. Forgetters, Perjurers, Adverse Witnesses, Deponents and More
  • Ch. 13. Ethical and Legal Boundaries of Cross
  • Ch. 14. Cases and Assignments