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THE TRIAL PROCESS:LAW, TACTICS, AND

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THE TRIAL PROCESS:LAW, TACTICS, ANDETHICS

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DEDICATIONFor Philippa, Philippa, and James

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PREFACEIt has been almost thirty years since the first edition of The Trial Process was

published, and each new edition reflects what my students have taught me over the years.They have been patient and forgiving as I experimented on them with a dozen differentapproaches to teaching an intellectually rigorous trial practice course. They haveencouraged me when I was tempted to give up the effort to make this subject asstimulating as other curricular offerings, and they have constantly rewarded my attemptsto get them to think as critically about the trial process as they would about contracts andtorts. This fourth edition is a tribute to them, and I have used many of their names in theexamples.

I owe special debts of gratitude to five people. Mike Saks taught me the socialpsychology of juror behavior and persuasion. I was lucky enough to spend two semesterswith him at Iowa, first on a sabbatical leave, and then on a CIC Fellowship. Along thispath, I was helped and encouraged by my sister, Sarah Tanford, with whom I wrote anarticle on the interrelationship between psychology and trial practice. Thesecollaborations have heavily influenced this book’s approach to trial tactics, in which thefolklore of advocacy is informed by the research of psychologists. I believe this producesa more realistic picture of trial practice than would otherwise have been possible.Philippa Guthrie has provided the love and moral support that enabled me to undertakeand complete this book. Philippa, Jr. and James have made it all worthwhile.

I am grateful also to Indiana University for providing financial support, sabbaticalleaves, and summer stipends that have enabled me to carry this book through foureditions. Finally, a word of deep appreciation for two students, Camille Johnson andRachel Leahy, who stepped up and did an extraordinary amount of excellent research,without which it would not have been possible to complete this edition.

J. Alexander TanfordBloomington, Indiana

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTSThe author acknowledges with thanks permission to reprint from the following

materials:

Gary Bellow & Bea Moulton, The Lawyering Process (1978). Reprinted withpermission of the Foundation Press.

James P. Brown, A Juryman’s View, 2 Ga. St. Bar J. 225 (1965). Reprinted withpermission from James P. Brown and the Georgia State Bar Journal.

Robert Keeton, Trial Tactics and Methods (2d ed. 1973). Reprinted with permission ofLittle, Brown & Company.

James McElhaney, Expert Witnesses and the Federal Rules of Evidence, 28 Mercer L.Rev. 463 (1977). Reprinted with permission from Mercer Law Review.

Ronald J. Rychlak, “Direct Criminal Contempt and the Trial Attorney’’ ConstitutionalLimitations on the Contempt Power, 14 Am. J. Trial Advoc. 243 (1990). Reprinted withpermission from Prof. Rychlak and the American Journal of Trial Advocacy.

Hans Zeisel and Shari Diamond, The Effect of Peremptory Challenges on Jury andVerdict: An Experiment in a Federal District Court, 30 Stan. L. Rev. 491 (1978).Copyright 1978 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University.

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Table of ContentsChapter 1 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

§ 1.01 OVERVIEW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

§ 1.02 HISTORY OF THE JURY TRIAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

§ 1.03 THE ADVERSARY SYSTEM AND THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH . . . . . . 7

§ 1.04 THE GENERAL LEGAL PRINCIPLES OF TRIALS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

[A] The Order of Trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

[B] The Right to a Jury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

[C] The Principle of Judicial Control and Discretion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

[D] The Contempt Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

[E] Disruptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

State v. Franklin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

§ 1.05 COURTROOM CUSTOMS AND ETIQUETTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

§ 1.06 THE IDEA OF ADVOCACY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

[A] The Obligation to Be an Advocate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Ferguson v. Moore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

[B] Ethical Limits to Zealous Advocacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

§ 1.07 BECOMING AN EFFECTIVE ADVOCATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

[A] Basic Principles of Advocacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

[B] Courtroom Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

[C] Understanding the Psychology of Jury Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

[D] The Importance of Preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Chapter 2 PREPARING FOR TRIAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

§ 2.01 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

§ 2.02 THE DUTY TO PREPARE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

§ 2.03 INTERVIEWING WITNESSES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

[A] Barriers to Gathering Accurate Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

[B] Techniques for Facilitating Interviewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

[C] Facts Versus Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

[D] Types of Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

[E] A Five-Stage Interview Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

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§ 2.04 PREPARING A CASE THEORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

§ 2.05 DEVELOPING THE EVIDENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

[A] Is the Evidence Admissible? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

[B] Diagramming the Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

[C] Corroboration and Credibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

[D] Planning for Objections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

§ 2.06 FILLING IN THE GAPS IN YOUR CASE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

[A] Presumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

[B] Stipulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

[C] Judicial Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

[D] Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

[E] Using Depositions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

§ 2.07 DEVELOPING A PERSUASION STRATEGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

§ 2.08 SELECTION AND ORDER OF WITNESSES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

[A] Whether to Call Any Witnesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

[B] Criteria for Selecting Witnesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

[C] Whether the Accused Should Testify . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

[D] Order of Witnesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

§ 2.09 PRETRIAL MOTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

§ 2.10 PRETRIAL CONFERENCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

§ 2.11 LEGAL MEMORANDA AND TRIAL BRIEFS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

§ 2.12 THE TRIAL NOTEBOOK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Chapter 3 SELECTING A JURY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

§ 3.01 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

§ 3.02 EXAMPLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

§ 3.03 THE TERMINOLOGY OF JURY SELECTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

§ 3.04 DISQUALIFICATIONS AND EXEMPTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

§ 3.05 THE QUEST FOR A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL JURY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

[A] Juries Must Be Drawn From a “Fair Cross-Section” of the Community . 94

Taylor v. Louisiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

State v. Haskins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

U.s. v. Odeneal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Carroll v. State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

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[B] Jury Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

[C] Striving for Juror Impartiality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Fietzer v. Ford Motor Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

U.s. v. Bear Runner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

§ 3.06 QUESTIONING PROCEDURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

[A] Written Questionnaires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

[B] In-Court Questioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

§ 3.07 THE SCOPE OF QUESTIONING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

[A] Questions About Juror Impartiality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

[B] Questions About the Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

[C] Questions to Acquire Information for Exercising Peremptory Challenges

Unrelated to Bias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

[D] Questions Used to Begin Advocacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Gregory v. State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

§ 3.08 CONDUCTING THE VOIR DIRE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

[A] Purposes of Questioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

[B] Preparing Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

[1] Introductory Remarks to the Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

[2] Areas of Inquiry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

[a] Questions about the law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

[b] Factual weaknesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

[c] The people involved in the case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

[d] The main facts of the case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

[3] The Final Question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

[C] Conducting the Voir Dire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

[1] Form of Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

[2] Keeping Track of Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

[3] Where to Stand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

[4] Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

[5] Indoctrinating the Jury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

[D] Deciding Whom to Challenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

[E] Exercising Your Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

[F] Error and Protecting the Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

§ 3.09 ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

[A] General Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

[B] Intentional Violation of Proper Jury Selection Procedure . . . . . . . . . . 141

[C] Revealing Personal Information About Yourself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

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NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

§ 3.10 DOES CAREFUL JURY SELECTION MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE? . . 142

§ 3.11 JURY MANAGEMENT THROUGHOUT TRIAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Chapter 4 OPENING STATEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

§ 4.01 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

§ 4.02 EXAMPLE OF AN OPENING STATEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

§ 4.03 OPENING STATEMENT LAW AND PROCEDURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

[A] Right to Make Opening Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

[B] Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

[C] The Content of Opening Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

[1] The Prohibition Against Argument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

[2] Discussing the Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

[3] Reference to Pleadings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

[4] Discussion of Facts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

[5] Exhibits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

[6] Other Improper Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

§ 4.04 ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Hawk v. Superior Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

§ 4.05 PREPARATION AND PLANNING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

[A] Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

[B] The Contents of an Opening Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

[1] Introductory Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

[2] Introduction of Actors, Places, and Instrumentalities . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

[3] Identification of Disputes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

[4] Telling the Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

[5] Making It Clear That You Are Discussing the Evidence . . . . . . . . . 170

[6] Weaknesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

[7] Damages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

[8] Conclusion and Request for Verdict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

[C] Should You Waive or Reserve Opening Statement? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

[D] Should You Write Out Your Opening Statement? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

[E] Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

§ 4.06 PRESENTING YOUR OPENING STATEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

[A] Last-Minute Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

[B] Beginning Your Opening Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

[C] Delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

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[D] Responding to the Unexpected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

[1] Improper Opening by Opponent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

[2] Responding to Objections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

[3] Should the Defense Change Its Opening Because of What Plaintiff

Does? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Chapter 5 MAKING AND MEETING OBJECTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . 183

§ 5.01 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

§ 5.02 OBJECTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

[A] Objection Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

[B] How to Make an Objection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

[C] Tactics of Making Objections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

[1] Reasons to Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

[2] Reasons Not to Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

[D] Ethics of Objections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

§ 5.03 RESPONDING TO OBJECTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

[A] Should You Respond at All? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

[1] Reasons to Withdraw or Rephrase a Question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

[2] Reasons to Keep Silent and Let the Judge Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

[3] Reasons to Argue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

[B] How to Respond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

§ 5.04 MOTIONS TO STRIKE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

[A] Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

[B] Are Motions to Strike Worth Making? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

§ 5.05 OFFERS OF PROOF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Chapter 6 DIRECT EXAMINATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

§ 6.01 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

§ 6.02 EXAMPLE OF A DIRECT EXAMINATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

§ 6.03 THE RIGHT TO PRESENT WITNESSES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

§ 6.04 PLANNING DIRECT EXAMINATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

[A] Understanding Legal Rules That Limit the Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

[1] The Rules of Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

[2] The “Res Gestae” Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

[3] The Rule Against Using False and Perjured Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . 214

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[4] The Rule Against Repetition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

[5] The Rule Against “Bolstering” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

[6] The Rules Concerning Redirect Examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

[B] Understanding the Trial Judge’s Discretion to Manage the Trial . . . . . 218

[C] Pre-Trial Preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

[1] What Topics to Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

[2] Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

[a] The beginning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

[b] Background information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

[c] Setting the scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

[d] Telling the story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

[e] What to do with weaknesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

[f] Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

[g] Redirect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

[3] Making the Testimony Persuasive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

[D] Witness Prep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

[1] Preparing the Content of Testimony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

[2] Ethical Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

[3] Preparing Witnessses for the Courtroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

[4] Preparing Your Witness for Cross-Examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

[E] Preparing a Good Outline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

§ 6.05 CONDUCTING DIRECT EXAMINATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

[A] Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

[B] Forms of Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

[1] Leading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

[2] Ambiguous, Unintelligible, and Vague Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

[3] Compound Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

[C] Form of Testimony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

[D] Handling Mistakes and Errors by the Witness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

[1] Correcting Mistakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

[2] Refreshing Recollection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

[3] Dealing with False Testimony and Perjury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

[E] The Tactics of Conducting Direct Examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

[1] Domination by Witness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

[2] Narrative vs. Fragmented Testimony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

[3] Phrasing Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

[4] Controlling the Witness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

[a] Controlling the content of testimony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

[b] Controlling the witness’s delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

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[5] Manner and Style of Attorney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

§ 6.06 EXHIBITS AND DEMONSTRATIVE EVIDENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

[A] General Procedure for Handling Exhibits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

[B] Foundations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

[1] Real Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

[2] Writings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

[3] Illustrative Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

[4] Pedagogical Exhibits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

[5] Silent Witness Exhibits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

[C] Using Exhibits in Your Direct Examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

[1] Whether to Use an Exhibit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

[2] Using a Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

[3] Communicating the Contents of Exhibits to the Jury . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

§ 6.07 DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

§ 6.08 CONDUCTING REDIRECT EXAMINATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Chapter 7 CROSS-EXAMINATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

§ 7.01 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

§ 7.02 EXAMPLE OF A CROSS-EXAMINATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

§ 7.03 THE RIGHT TO CROSS-EXAMINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

§ 7.04 THE CONTENT OF CROSS-EXAMINATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

[A] Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

[B] The Good-Faith Basis Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

[C] Creating a False Impression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

§ 7.05 THE FORM OF CROSS-EXAMINATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

[A] Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

[B] Arguing and Badgering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

§ 7.06 PLANNING A CROSS-EXAMINATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

[A] Should You Cross-Examine? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

[B] Selecting a Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

[1] Positive Cross-Examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

[2] Negative Cross-Examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

[a] Proving a likelihood that the witness is wrong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

[b] Proving the witness has in fact testified incorrectly . . . . . . . . . . . 304

[C] What Topics to Include . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

[1] Does a Topic Advance Your Theory of the Case? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

[2] How Important Is a Topic in Relation to Others? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

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[3] Is a Topic Consistent with Others You Want to Raise? . . . . . . . . . . 307

[4] How “Safe” Is the Topic? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

[D] Order of Cross-Examination Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

§ 7.07 PREPARING CROSS-EXAMINATION QUESTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

[A] Write Out Your Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

[B] Use the Witness’s Own Words Whenever Possible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

[C] Index the Depositions and Prior Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

[D] Break Your Topics Down into the Smallest Possible Units . . . . . . . . . 315

[E] Ask Only One Fact Per Question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

[F] Always Ask Leading Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

[G] Keep Your Questions Simple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

[H] Ask About Facts, Not Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

[I] Don’t Ask the Witness to Explain an Answer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

§ 7.08 CONDUCTING THE CROSS-EXAMINATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

[A] Last-Minute Preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

[B] Maintaining Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

[1] The Single Most Important Technique for Maintaining Control . . . . 320

[2] Controlling Runaway Witnesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

[3] Knowing When to Abandon a Line of Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

[4] Know How to Impeach with a Prior Inconsistent Statement . . . . . . . 323

[5] Know How to Impeach with a Prior Inconsistent Omission . . . . . . . 327

[6] Choreography: Control through Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

[C] Handling Interruptions by Opposing Counsel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

[D] Handling Interruptions by the Judge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

[E] Manner and Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

[1] Fairness Toward the Witness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

[2] Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Chapter 8 EXPERT WITNESSES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

§ 8.01 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

§ 8.02 SAMPLE DIRECT AND CROSS-EXAMINATION OF AN EXPERTWITNESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

§ 8.03 LEGAL FRAMEWORK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

[A] Is the Witness Qualified as an Expert? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

[B] Is There a Relevant Issue on Which Expert Testimony Is Permitted? . . 340

[C] Is the Proposed Testimony Scientifically Reliable? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

[D] Expert Opinions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

[E] Cross-Examination and Impeachment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

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§ 8.04 PRESENTING EXPERT TESTIMONY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

[A] Whether to Use Expert Testimony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

[B] Selection of Expert Witnesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

[C] Preparing the Expert to Testify . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

[1] Initial Consultation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

[2] Planning the Direct Examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

[a] Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

[b] Qualifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

[c] Tender the witness as an expert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

[d] Facts and opinions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

[3] Preparing the Content of the Testimony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

[4] Preparing the Expert for the Courtroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

[D] Conducting Direct Examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

§ 8.05 OPPOSING EXPERT TESTIMONY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

[A] Voir Dire on Qualifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

[B] The Daubert Hearing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

[C] Cross-Examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

[1] Whether to Cross-Examine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

[2] Eliciting Favorable Testimony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

[3] Impeachment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

[a] Attacking personal credibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

[b] Attacking the credibility of the testimony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

[c] Emphasizing contradictions between opposing experts . . . . . . . . . 374

[d] Attacking the expert’s qualifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

[e] Attacking the expert’s degree of certainty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

[4] Preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

[5] Conducting the Cross-Examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

§ 8.06 POSTSCRIPT: ARE JURORS OVERAWED BY EXPERTS? . . . . . . . . 377

Chapter 9 CLOSING ARGUMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

§ 9.01 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

§ 9.02 EXAMPLE OF A CLOSING ARGUMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

§ 9.03 LEGAL FRAMEWORK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

[A] The Right to Make an Argument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

[B] Closing Argument Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

[C] The Content of Closing Argument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

[1] Arguments About Facts and Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

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[2] Arguments Concerning Damages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

[3] Arguing That Someone Else Is to Blame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

[4] Arguments About the Credibility of Witnesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

[5] Arguments Concerning the Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

[6] Making Emotional Appeals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

[a] Appeals to sympathy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

[b] Appeals to prejudice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

[c] Wealth, insurance, and ability to pay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

[d] Sending messages and addressing social issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

[e] Personal impact on jurors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

[7] Commenting on the Role of the Jury in the Adversary System . . . . . 402

[8] Discussing the Consequences of the Verdict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

[9] Personal Attacks and Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

[10] Use of Visual Aids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

[11] Use of Analogies, Metaphors, and Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

[D] Procedure for Objecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

§ 9.04 ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

§ 9.05 PREPARING CLOSING ARGUMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

[A] Content of Closing Argument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

[B] Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

[C] Organization of a Closing Argument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

[1] Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

[2] Brief Summary of Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

[3] Identifying the Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

[4] Order of Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

[5] Resolving the Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

[6] Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

[D] Special Problems for Plaintiff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

[E] Special Problems for Defendant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

[F] Writing It All Down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

[G] Preparation During Trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

§ 9.06 CONDUCTING CLOSING ARGUMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

[A] Manner and Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

[B] Speaking Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

[C] Choreography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

[D] Coping with Surprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

[1] Improper Arguments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

[2] Rhetorical Questions and Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

[3] Plaintiff Waives or Gives a Short First Argument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434

[4] Use of Charts and Exhibits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

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Chapter 10 DELIBERATIONS AND VERDICT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

§ 10.01 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

§ 10.02 JURY INSTRUCTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

[A] Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

[B] Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

[C] Requesting and Objecting to Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

§ 10.03 DELIBERATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

[A] Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

[B] The Basis for Decision: What May the Jurors Consider? . . . . . . . . . . . 443

[1] Collateral Consequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

[2] Exhibits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

[3] New “Evidence”: The Jurors’ Own Experiences, the Advice of Outsiders,

Newspapers, Dictionaries, Etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

[C] Re-Reading Jury Instructions and Testimony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

[D] New Instructions During Deliberations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

[E] Misconduct That Occurs During Deliberations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

§ 10.04 VERDICTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

[A] Must the Verdict Be Unanimous? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

[B] Quotient and Compromise Verdicts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

§ 10.05 POST DELIBERATIONS PROCEDURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

[A] Polling the Jury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

[B] Investigating Juror Misconduct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

Tanner v. United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

[C] Clerical Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

APPENDIX EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUTEVIDENCE (but have forgotten since the evidenceexam) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

A. GENERAL PRINCIPLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

B. DETAILED OUTLINE OF IMPORTANT RULES OF EVIDENCE . . . . 457

1. Relevancy (Rules 401-02) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

2. Prejudicial Effect (Rule 403) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

3. Character Evidence (Rules 404-405) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

4. Similar Events (case law) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

5. Habit and Routine Practices (Rule 406) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

6. Subsequent Remedial Measures (Rule 407) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

7. Offers of Compromise — Civil Cases (Rule 408) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

8. Insurance (Rule 411) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

9. Rape Victim’s Prior Sexual Conduct (Rule 412) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

10. Privilege (mostly statutory, some case law) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

11. Personal Knowledge Rule (Rule 602) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

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12. Impeachment of Witness for Past Acts of Fraud or Falsity (Rule 608) . 461

13. Impeachment of Witness for Prior Criminal Convictions (Rule 609) . . 461

14. Impeachment of Witness for a Prior Inconsistent Statement . . . . . . . . 462

15. Impeachment for Bias, Interest, or Motive (case law) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

16. Opinion Rule (Rule 701) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

17. Expert Opinions (Rules 702-05) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

18. Hearsay Rule (Rules 801-02) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

19. Hearsay Exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

20. Hearsay Exceptions That May Be Used Only if the Declarant is

Unavailable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464

21. Telephone Conversations (case law and Rule 901) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464

22. Authentication of Exhibits (Rules 901-902) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

Table of Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TC-1

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I-1

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