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Notes I wrote during a federal judge’s voir dire a few months ago:
A judge’s voir dire is calculated to get jurors to promise to follow the law while a lawyer’s voir dire is calculated to find those who might have difficulty following the law.
A judge’s voir dire is calculated to get jurors to agree with [...]
Mark Bennett | April 22, 2008
The title of this post is, according to Terry MacCarthy (buy the cross-examination CDs!), the criminal defense lawyer’s credo. I had always thought of it as descriptive — the way we are — rather than prescriptive — the way we should be. We should be prepared, shouldn’t we?
Yes and no. There are things we can [...]
