Full Description
The Rule-Out method of criminal defense, easily learned, gets most jurors to want to decide verdicts based solely on reasonable doubts -- which, perhaps unexpectedly, few jurors normally do on their own no matter how you explain it. Instead, most convictions result from burden shifting, the usual demand by jurors that the defense attorney prove innocence. Rule Out prevents this, teaches how to find plentiful reasonable doubts, and shows how to avoid the common practices that cause most convictions.
Contents
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part 1: Concept and Principles
What is Rule
Out?
Racism
The Warning
Burden Shifting
and Lesser Included Defenses by Richard S. Jaff
The Art and
Craft of Reasonable Doubts
Forensics and
Junk Science
Reasonable
Doubt and Law by Elliot Abrams
Part 2: Rule Out in Practice
Voir Dire
Opening
Statement by Shannon Tucker
Direct
Examination
Cross-Examination
Closing
Argument
Focus Groups by
Artemis Malekpour
Reasonable
Doubts in Sex Crime Cases by Susan Seahorn
Bibliography
About the Author and Contributors
Index
