Author: Roy Black

Voir Dire: 2014

September 3, 2014 Voir Dire
We started the first trial in my law school class. The initial exercise was jury selection. I coached the students while they were standing in front of the jury box...

Bulldogging in Miami

July 24, 2014 Bulldogging
Naturally I read the legal commentary following Nel's cross of Pistorius. Most lawyers were critical, labeling Nel's sarcasm and bullying as argumentative and thus objectionable in a US court. While...

Be Like LeBron

May 31, 2014 LeBron James
Last night I watched the Miami Heat crush the Indiana pacers to win the Eastern Conference Finals. This victory was notable for two reasons: the Pacers were designed to beat...

Risky Business

May 27, 2014 Criminal Defense
At the last NBA All-Star game SAP unveiled a player-efficiency software program called SportVU. It records every movement of a player during a game. It plots 792,000 data points --...

The “Bull Dog” Cross

April 24, 2014 Bulldogging
In the beginning I had little interest in the Oscar Pistorius trial; only after reading descriptions of Gerrie “The Bull Dog” Nel’s cross-examination of Pistorius (OP) did I pay attention....