Coping with Cross-examination and Other Pathways to Effective Testimony
Description:... This book is about the psychology of the cross-examination, considered within the totality of testifying in court; how to think on the stand, which patterns of words to use and not use, what behaviors work, and how to understand interchanges between attorney and witness. This book is equally about fearfulness on the stand and mastering that fear. This book focuses on approaches to cross-examination testimony in the light of new conceptual and empirical understandings. By drawing on my experiences and those of many other witnesses in court, it addresses how to broaden your repertoire of cross-examination testimony as well as how to approach and master testifying in depositions and trials. What this book does, in particular, is look at what attorneys seek to do in cross-examinations in depth and in breadth, so that both novice and advanced expert witnesses have an appreciation for what is unfolding and for specific replies.
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