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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Aug. 9, 2008

Story Selling

Every legal case has its narrative — but there’s a difference between reciting a narrative and telling a good story when you’re in court, writes G. Christopher Ritter. - Forum Column

FORUM COLUMN

By G. Christopher Ritter
This article appears on Page 4

      Several years ago, the San Francisco district attorney's office was prosecuting a case against two lawyers whose Presa Canario dogs had killed a 33-year-old woman, a resident in their apartment building.
      The case involved many dramatic elements: monster-sized dogs, white supremacists, death threats, alleg...

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