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PERSUASIVE DIRECT EXAMINATION
Jerry Cox & Wil Zevely
2010
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Direct Examination
It’s a Story!!!
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Direct Examination
Why Do It?
????????????
Why Not?
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Why Do It?
• Advances theory of the case
• Impeachment
• Fills in Gaps
• Enhances emotion or narrative
• Organizes and orders evidence
• Client will do well
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Why Not?
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•It so often goes badly
•We aren’t good at it
•No Control
•Cross Examination
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Getting Started
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• DO NOT PUT ON A WITNESS WHO DOES NOT ADVANCE SIGNIFICANTLY THE THEORY OF THE CASE
- Ernie Lewis
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Risks to Consider
• Prior Criminal Record
• Opening the door
• Ability to communicate and
handle cross
• Is testimony only evidence
• Is testimony corroborated
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Plan
• What testimony will you elicit and how does it advance your theory of the case
• DON’T ask questions that don’t advance your theory of the case
• Unnecessary testimony detracts from important testimony and may broaden the scope of cross
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Anticipate Objections
• Know potential objections
• Know your response
• When you win, repeat the question � let’s the jury know you won
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FACTS NEEDED POSSIBLE WAYS STATE CAN
FOR WITNESS TRY TO KEEP IT OUT OF EVIDENCE
/DEFENSE RESPONSES
FACT 3
FACT 2
FACT 1
GROUND
3
GROUND
2
GROUND
1
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Anticipate Damaging Information
• Does benefit of testimony outweigh risk
• How will you deal with potentially damaging information
–Pre-trial Motion in Limine
–Seek ruling prior to cross
–Contemporaneous objection
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Prepare Your Witness!!!
• Prepare them psychologically
–Mock Cross-Examination
–Place witness in
realistic environment
–Explore witnesses fears
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Prepare Your Witness!!!
• Prepare Nonverbal Communication and Demeanor
–Nervous habits (rocking, tapping fingers, gum)
–Dress
–Attitude
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Prepare Your Witness!!!
• Prepare for use of real or demonstrative evidence
• Prepare for prior inconsistencies
• Prepare problem areas
• Prepare for objections
• Tell witness to always tell the truth
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Prepare for Cross
• Don’t ask prosecutor questions
• Short answers; explain on redirect
• Listen! Think before answering!
• Don’t forget everything; don’t remember more than possible
• Admit to talking to you
• Don’t look to defense lawyer for help
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THE PRESENTATION
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Accredit the Witness
• Bring the witness to life
• Make the witness a person the jury will want to believe
• Consider WHEN to do this – how does it best fit into the story
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Organizing Your Presentation
• Primacy and Recency
– Elicit denials at beginning and end
– Start with powerful moment then go back and accredit
– What makes the best story
• Chapter Method
– Write each chapter
– Put in most compelling order
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Form of the Question
• Open ended (Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How) / Avoid “Did”
• Short, simple, concise
• Conversational
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Word Choice
• How Big vs. How Small
• How Fast vs. How Slow
• Hit vs. Pummelled
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Talk Like a Person
• No legalese
• No “cop” speak
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Performance
• Body Language
• Use of Courtroom
• Tone of Voice
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Listen!
• You won’t always get the answer you expect
• Danger of script
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Anticipate Juror’s questions
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Deal With Bad facts
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Bad Facts
• The intoxilyzer number
• Bad driving
• Bad field sobriety tests
• Bad statements
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Persuasion Techniques
• Headlines
• Silence
• Looping
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HEADLINES
Changing subject matter
–Let’s talk about . . .
• Changing location
– I want to take you to . . .
• Changing time
–Let’s go back to / move ahead to . . .
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Silence
Q: Michael, did you think Officer Fern was trying to trick you?
A: Yes.
Q: How did that make you feel?
A: Very betrayed. I was brought up to believe the police were fair & just.
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Looping
Q:Tell us about your shoes.
A:They were enormous. Maybe two feet long. They were real wide. It was hard to walk in them.
Q:What did you think about walking up that steep damp hill in those enormous shoes?
A: It was impossible.
Q: How did you feel taking the one leg stand in those enormous shoes?
A: I couldn’t do it.
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How to Tell the Story
• Present tense
• Flash back
• Flash forward
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Tell the Story in Present Tense
Now Michael, put yourself back on that sidewalk with those enormous shoes & tell us about what is going on in your mind.
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Flash Back
Q: Let’s leave the drive home for a moment and go back in time to the Halloween party. Tell us about that.
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Flash Forward
Q: Let’s move forward in time and tell us
what went on with Officer Fern after
you felt you were in a game you
couldn’t win?
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After Direct – You Job is not Done
• Listen for objectionable cross-examination
• Consider re-direct, if any