Disorderly Conduct: Verbatim Excerpts from Actual Cases

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W. W. Norton & Company, 1999 M07 7 - 172 páginas
This assortment of unintentionally amusing courtroom exchanges ranges from the testimony of expert witnesses to jury selection to cross examination to creative defense, closing argument, and sentencing -- a rollicking guide to America's legal system.

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Foreword
9
Judicial Temperament
13
The Pleadings
29
Police Investigation
39
Accident Reports
49
The Advocates
57
Picking a Jury
65
The Defendant
75
Leading Questions
97
Cross Examination
109
Expert Witnesses
119
Creative Defenses
131
Closing Arguments
141
Jury Instructions and Deliberations
151
Sentencing
161
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Witnesses
85

Términos y frases comunes

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Rodney R. Jones is a practicing attorney in Medocino, California. Perennially on the "Best Lawyers in America" list, Charles M. Sevilla has a private law practice in San Diego. He is the author of Wilkes on Trial and Wilkes: His Life and Crimes and a columnist for Forum.

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