Cross-Examination Handbook: Persuasion, Strategies, and Techniques (Aspen Coursebook)

Cross-Examination Handbook teaches students the skills and strategies behind planning and conducting a persuasive cross-examination. Step-by-step instruction and outstanding examples from illustrative trials inform; two criminal and two civil case files, along with role-play assignments, give students practice actually planning and executing a cross-examination.

The Cross-Examination Handbook: Persuasion, Strategies, and Techniques:

• preparing a winning cross-examination: select and shape your content, get the answers you want, and impeach the adverse witness
• developing winning techniques and strategies: handle problematic witnesses and cross-examine expert witnesses
• learning by example strategies and techniques in practice: the O.J. Simpson trial, the John Scopes trial, the Senator Stevens trial, the Enron trial and the Ted Bundy trial
• understanding the ethical and legal boundaries of cross-examination: skills training for law school classes and CLE workshops

Summary of Contents

• Ch. 1. Introduction to Book and Website
• Ch. 2. Purposes of Cross: Build, Preserve, Demolish
• Ch. 3. The Content and Concession-Seeking Cross
• Ch. 4. Constructing the Cross: Your Chance to Testify
• Ch. 5. Impeachment Cross: Reliability
• Ch. 6. Impeachment Cross: Report
• Ch. 7. Impeachment Cross: Reporter
• Ch. 8. Character and Conduct in Trial
• Ch. 9. Witness Control: Strategies and Techniques
• Ch. 10. Preparing the Winning Cross-Examination
• Ch. 11. Cross-Examining Expert Witnesses
• Ch. 12. Forgetters, Perjurers, Adverse Witnesses, Deponents and More
• Ch. 13. Ethical and Legal Boundaries of Cross
• Ch. 14. Cases and Assignments