Monday, May 2, 2011

Be Good to Your Jurors: Connect the Dots!

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Recently, the foreman of the Blagojevich trial jury, critiqued the U.S. attorneys in the following manner: “They didn’t impress upon the j...
Saturday, April 2, 2011

Will Juror Empathy Help or Hurt Your Case?

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Delving into the group affiliation tendencies and reading habits of your jurors can give you valuable clues to whether or not a juror will b...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Motivate Jurors Positively, Not Just Negatively

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It used to be thought that by activating dire consequences in jurors’ minds, jurors would rush to fix or avoid consequences. This has held t...
Monday, January 31, 2011

The Power Sit – Science Matches Experience

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In working with witnesses, I developed the “Power Sit” – my shorthand for “Please sit up straight, your back against the back of the chair, ...
Friday, December 31, 2010

Harness Jurors’ Wandering Minds: New Science

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New research from Harvard University psychologists (Matthew A. Killingsworth & Daniel T. Gilbert) shows that people spend 46.9% of thei...
Thursday, December 2, 2010

The Great Recession and Your Jury

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A recent Pew Center Research Publication (September 24, 2010) brought to light how the Great Recession has had significantly different impac...
Monday, October 4, 2010

Handling the Angry Witness

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You’re gearing up for trial, you hardly have the time or patience to deal with an angry witness. Yet there you are, in the unenviable positi...