Subjects:

Advocacy

Contents:

Chapter 1 Philosophy and Overview of the Science of Cross-Examination

Chapter 2 Developing a Theory of the Case

Chapter 3 The Strategy, Preparation, and Organization of Cross-Examination

Chapter 4 Cross-Examination Focused Investigation

Chapter 5 Cross-Examination Preparation System 1: Topic Charts

Chapter 6 Cross-Examination Preparation System 2: Sequence of Events Charts

Chapter 7 Cross-Examination Preparation System 3: Witness Statement Charts

Chapter 8 The Only Three Rules of Cross-Examination

Chapter 9 The Chapter Method of Cross-Examination

Chapter 10 Page Preparation of Cross-Examination

Chapter 11 Sequences of Cross-Examination

Chapter 12 Employing Primacy and Recency

Chapter 13 The Relationship of Opening Statement to Cross-Examination

Chapter 14 Redirect and Recross Examination

Chapter 15 Destroying Safe Havens

Chapter 16 Eight Steps of Impeachment by Inconsistent Statement

Chapter 17 Impeachment by Omission

Chapter 18 Advanced Impeachment Techniques

Chapter 19 Controlling the Runaway Witness

Chapter 20 Dealing With the I Dont Know or I Dont RememberWitness

Chapter 21 Creation and Uses of Silence

Chapter 22 Voice, Movement, Body Language, and Timing

Chapter 23 Diminishing or Building the Point

Chapter 24 Juxtaposition

Chapter 25 Trilogies

Chapter 26 Loops, Double Loops, and Spontaneous Loops

Chapter 27 Cross-Examination Without Discovery

Chapter 28 The Crying Witness

Chapter 29 Coping with Objections

Chapter 30 Recognizing and Controlling Bait

Chapter 31 Pre-trial Application: Use at Depositions and Pre-trial Hearings

Chapter 32 How to Master the Techniques Without Trial Experience

Chapter 33 Analysis of Trial Techniques in Cross-Examination

In Cross Examination: Science and Techniques, Second Edition, Larry Pozner and Roger Dodd continue their outstanding tradition of helping attorneys conduct commanding cross-examinations. The second edition offers deeper analysis of cross-examination methods, with more integration and interrelationship of techniques and principles. The authors recognize that trials and juries have changed considerably since the publication of the First Edition in 1993. Evolving admissibility standards and the Internet age pose new challenges to the cross-examiner. In analyzing thousands of new trial experiences, Pozner and Dodd present efficient techniques to confront these challenges, and ultimately, help attorneys develop cross-examination skills that are critical to trial success. In this new Second Edition, the authors:-

• Demonstrate how opponents' objections can be the springboard for deeper and broader cross-examinations.
• Show how cross-examination can be sequenced to teach the theory of the case in the best way, and to literally expand the rules of admissibility.
• Explain how "loops" (the practice of incorporating and repeating key phrases and terms in successive questions to the witness) are used to rename witnesses and exhibits.
• Describe the use of "double loops" to discredit opposing expert witnesses.

Effective cross-examination is a science with established guidelines, identifiable techniques, and definable methods. Attorneys can learn how to control the outcome with careful preparation, calculated strategy, effective skills, and a disciplined demeanor.

The book also includes explanation of how to:-

• Use voir dire to create great jurors
• Use a fact-driven investigation to develop a winning theory
• Use a witness's own words to follow your theme and theory
• Control the runaway witness
• Communicate winning theories in opening, cross, and closing
• Use loops to box in the witness
• Use tactical sequencing to create the most powerful cross
• Convert a witness's silence into admission of fact
• Induce the witness to voice your pre-selected words
• Prepare for devastating impeachment
• Close off any escape routes for the witness
• Punish the evasive or "I don't know" witness
• Control the crying witness
• Use timing, posture, inflection, diction, wording, eye contact, and other effects to emphasize a witness's concession

This revised and improved resource addresses new challenges and offers deeper analysis of cross-examination methods. Pozner and Dodd's book remains the definitive guide to preparing killer cross-examinations.