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HOW TO PREPARE DIRECT WITNESS EXAMINATION

HOW TO PREPARE DIRECT WITNESS EXAMINATION

Examining witnesses looks easy on television and in the movies. Whether direct or cross examination, on television & the movies, it is always brief, entertaining and totally successful. It always looks so easy, until you do it in a court room with a real live witness. Your well-planned cross examination can unexpectedly not be the examination you had in mind when you started. Direct examination can be as much a challenge as well. That’s the real world for trial lawyers…

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THOUGHTS ABOUT EPIDEMIOLOGY IN OUR TRIALS “Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable” Mark Twain

THOUGHTS ABOUT EPIDEMIOLOGY IN OUR TRIALS “Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable” Mark Twain

“There are three types of lies — lies, damn lies, and statistics.” ― Benjamin Disraeli John Godfrey Saxe wrote this well known poem which illustrates the problem we often experience in our trials involving evidence of causation and scientific connection to events. Too often, it is a matter of interpretation. Blind Men and the Elephant  It was six men of Indostan, To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by…

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THE HUMAN BRAIN – AN AMAZING ORGAN

THE HUMAN BRAIN – AN AMAZING ORGAN

There is an informative book I  read: Incognito: the secret lives of the brain  by David Eagleman which I recommend to anyone who is interested in how our brains function. Here are few excerpts I found interesting. The brain  is an amazing organ. The brain is three pounds of the most complex material we have discovered in the universe. This is the mission control center that drives the whole operation. Your brain is made up of cells  called neurons – hundreds of…

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