Judge Amy Hanley says the goal of cross-examination is to maintain control of the witness and as the examining attorney much of the power to do that is in your hands. "You have a witness who has been ...

Q: I am being called as a witness in a criminal case. This is because I was at a restaurant when two guys got into it. I saw first hand what happened. One of them initiated it and wound up knocked out ...

When the Department of Education (ED) issued the final rule in May 2020 mandating compliance by Aug. 14, 2020, one of the most hotly contested issues was cross-examination and the effects of not ...

From a legal point of view, there are two kinds of questions. OK, maybe four, but the latter two are really riffs on the basic two. Questions on direct examination are a species of their own and ...

Cross-examination is a big deal for a key witness. I’ve noticed in trial that it gets some added attentiveness from the jury. Knowing that they’re now seeing one side pitted directly against the other ...

While watching her father cross-examine a witness in To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout Finch invokes the first rule of cross-examination that most lawyers—Atticus Finch included—learn: “Never, never, never ...