The perfect school for litigation sits on the corner of 57th street and Seventh Avenue in mid-town Manhattan. It is called Carnegie Hall and unfortunately it is dedicated to music...
Author: Roy Black
Voir Dire: 2014
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
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
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
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
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 Lament of Zachary Warren
Zachary Warren was a master of the universe. At least the legal universe. At 29 a Stanford degree, a magna cum laude graduate of Georgetown Law School, a clerkship at...
Cross Examination: The Sympathetic Yet Deadly Witness
The challenge – how to cross examine, impeach or even just diminish the impact of sympathetic witnesses without losing your audience?
State of Florida v Godinez
Howard Srebnick – Oral Argument in Florida 4th DCA State v Arturo Godinez
Michael Dunn’s Testimony
Roy Black appears on ABC’s Nightline to discuss Michael Dunn’s testimony.