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Coping With Cross–Examination and Other Pathways to Effective Testimony

Autor Stanley L. Brodsky
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 ian 2004
Health professionals, substance abuse counsellors, psychologists, handwriting analysts and experts on physical evidence should be interested in this book that teaches readers about the typical techniques attorneys use to challenge experts' credibility and the basis of their opinions. Pointers on preparation and effective narrative style are included, backed by findings from the emerging literature on the assessment of expert testimony.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781591470946
ISBN-10: 1591470943
Pagini: 250
Dimensiuni: 198 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Wiley

Descriere

Health professionals, substance abuse counselors, psychologists, handwriting analysts, and experts on physical evidence will be interested in this book that teaches readers about the typical techniques attorneys use to challenge experts' credibility and the basis of their opinions.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments

I. Introduction

  1. What This Book Is About
  2. A Beginning Point: Ten Things You May Not Know About Testifying

II. Testimony: Narrative and Style

Telling a Clear and Compelling Story

  1. Bridges 1: Telling a Story on the Stand
  2. Bridges 2: Narrative Techniques for Courtroom Testimony
  3. More Yin, Less Yang
  4. Imagery to Reduce Anxiety
  5. Reversals
  6. Position and Alignment
  7. Witness Preparation and Videotape Feedback
  8. Hypercorrect and Personal Speech
  9. Metaphors in Testimony

Obstacles and Pitfalls

  1. Pretentiousness
  2. Overconfidence
  3. Smug and They Don't Know It
  4. Suspicion-Evoking Testimony
  5. Visible Displays of Emotion 1
  6. Visible Displays of Emotion 2
  7. Repetitions
  8. Pocket Men and Quarterbacks
  9. Defining Moments
  10. Trivial Revenge
  11. Lies

Cross-Examination Attacks and Bullying

  1. Anticipate Tactics of the Adversarial Attorney
  2. Bullying Attorneys
  3. Involuntary Disclosure of Forensic Self
  4. Gendered Invasion of Witness Privacy
  5. Physical Threats
  6. Ingratiation

III. Expertise and Bases for Testimony

Professional Dilemmas and Boundaries

  1. Transcripts of Problem Depositions
  2. When Unprepared
  3. Translations
  4. Empathy Dilemmas
  5. Headline Testimony
  6. Distrusting Experts
  7. Lawyer Intrusions
  8. Clear Boundaries of Testimony
  9. (Not) Offering Advice
  10. Token Experts
  11. Expert Panels

Attorney Extrapolations and Demands

  1. Yes or No Demands
  2. Clients Next Door
  3. More Pulls to Extrapolate
  4. Echo Effects
  5. Familiar Presentation of Famous Studies
  6. Highly Paid, Well-Known Experts
  7. Surprise Demands

Clarity and Focus

  1. The Tough and Tangential Cross-Examination
  2. Data Errors
  3. Cross-Examinations About Tests
  4. Sexual Predator Testimony 1: Principles
  5. Sexual Predator Testimony 2: Challenges to the Construct
  6. Actuarial Testimony

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