Thought for the day: “This is the true joy in life, the being used for any purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.” George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman Here are three principles of psychology which can be…
I’ve known and admired my friend Gerry Spence for thirty plus years. I’ve been privileged to have been invited to teach at his Trial College in Wyoming every year since it began over a decade ago. He is particularly gifted in the skill of jury selection. He tried a case in October of last year in federal court in Iowa. It involved two black men who had been wrongfully convicted and in prison for some 25 years until their innocence…
I just returned from an Inner Circle of Advocates meeting in Aspen where Dr. Charles A. Morgan MD, a clinical professor of psychiatry at Yale gave a talk about deception detection. He has a wide background of experience in this area. I learned that time honoured methods for determining the truth, including the lie detector are not reliable. The whole subject of truthfulness is part of mankind’s history The Bible tells us Pontius Pilot asked Jesus a question which philosophers have…