Stanley L. Brodsky

Coping with Cross-Examination and Other Pathways to Effective Testimony

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Produktbeschreibung

Health professionals, substance abuse counselors, psychologists, handwriting analysts, and experts on physical evidence will be interested in this book that teaches readers about the typical techniques attorneys use to challenge experts' credibility and the basis of their opinions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: American Psychological Association (APA)
• New
• Seitenzahl: 249
• Erscheinungstermin: Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 155mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781591470946
• ISBN-10: 1591470943
• Artikelnr.: 22322659

Autorenporträt

Stanley L. Brodsky

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
I. Introduction
1. What This Book Is About
2. A Beginning Point: Ten Things You May Not Know About Testifying
II. Testimony: Narrative and Style
Telling a Clear and Compelling Story
1. Bridges 1: Telling a Story on the Stand
2. Bridges 2: Narrative Techniques for Courtroom Testimony
3. More Yin, Less Yang
4. Imagery to Reduce Anxiety
5. Reversals
6. Position and Alignment
7. Witness Preparation and Videotape Feedback
8. Hypercorrect and Personal Speech
9. Metaphors in Testimony
Obstacles and Pitfalls
1. Pretentiousness
2. Overconfidence
3. Smug and They Don't Know It
4. Suspicion-Evoking Testimony
5. Visible Displays of Emotion 1
6. Visible Displays of Emotion 2
7. Repetitions
8. Pocket Men and Quarterbacks
9. Defining Moments
10. Trivial Revenge
11. Lies
Cross-Examination Attacks and Bullying
1. Anticipate Tactics of the Adversarial Attorney
2. Bullying Attorneys
3. Involuntary Disclosure of Forensic Self
4. Gendered Invasion of Witness Privacy
5. Physical Threats
6. Ingratiation
III. Expertise and Bases for Testimony
Professional Dilemmas and Boundaries
1. Transcripts of Problem Depositions
2. When Unprepared
3. Translations
4. Empathy Dilemmas
5. Headline Testimony
6. Distrusting Experts
7. Lawyer Intrusions
8. Clear Boundaries of Testimony
9. (Not) Offering Advice
10. Token Experts
11. Expert Panels
Attorney Extrapolations and Demands
1. Yes or No Demands
2. Clients Next Door
3. More Pulls to Extrapolate
4. Echo Effects
5. Familiar Presentation of Famous Studies
6. Highly Paid, Well-Known Experts
7. Surprise Demands
Clarity and Focus
1. The Tough and Tangential Cross-Examination
2. Data Errors
3. Cross-Examinations About Tests
4. Sexual Predator Testimony 1: Principles
5. Sexual Predator Testimony 2: Challenges to the Construct
6. Actuarial Testimony
References
About the Author