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More free advice from Gideon: cross-examination techniques

By Gideon

learn from the master

Update: Since none o’y'all want to show your appreciation for this fine Free Information^TM, I had to pull out all the stops and insert this picture of J. Scalia. Now comment, or he’ll tell you how rude you are.

Original: We, here at A Public Defender, are a magnanimous sort. We have some amount of knowledge and we like to share it, however infantile or irrelevant or useless or wrong it may be. It is one of our hallmarks and we know you love us for it.

After all, who else would give poor, overworked, overwhelmed and overburdened law students some nifty pointers on objections. Who else would divulge the secrets of the law school experience and share our collective wisdom gained through that process?

No one, that’s who.

So, kids, sit back, grab some popcorn, uncork that Rioja (that’s for you Charon), light that joint*, shoot that dope* and get ready to learn.

This time, we won’t be presenting you with a list. Lists are so 2008. I’ve got something better. A live demonstration. All you ever need to know about cross-examinations and objection techniques and biased judges and, of course, how to roll over, is in this video. You can thank me in the comments.

(The video, unfortunately, is below the jump, because some people are still stuck in 1954, using IE6, which apparently can’t handle a simple Flash embed and crashes constantly. For those of you using IE6 [seems to work in IE7] (and really, please shoot yourself now), you can watch the video here. HT)

*Joke. Don’t do it.

Full post as published by A Public Defender on February 16, 2009 (boomark / email).