I have a Google alert for “rape” and an article from a local newspaper in Georgia popped up on my computer screen this morning. Benjamin Tyler Gray, 29, is on...

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...

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....

The challenge – how to cross examine, impeach or even just diminish the impact of sympathetic witnesses without losing your audience?

I have ignored this blog for the past two months because I was acutely tied up – the vicious battle for a new trial in the Goodman case, several intense...

I came across a new book called The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success by Kevin Dutton. A catchy title even for...

This past week my law school class worked on a cross-examination problem. In short, they ask the questions as if on cross with the mock witness and I play the...

"We don't recognize no f**king complaints!" The new motto from the same people who brought us Rodney King. If you dare complain about our misconduct you will reap the whirlwind.

I love collecting examples of this all too human foible. Let’s face reality, we all violate this rule. We just can’t help it. It is a compulsion. We know it...

Here is another fun story Irving Younger employed in his cross-examination lecture. He used it as a “one question too many” example but I think it works far better for...