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Focus (Forum & Focus)

May 9, 2007

Show, Don't Tell

Focus Column - By John Cleaves - Demonstrative evidence can be nearly anything, something you know only when you see it. So how does an attorney come up with something that is truly effective with a jury? Ask whether it is believable, understandable and memorable.

FOCUS COLUMN

By John Cleaves

      Remember Justice Potter Stewart's famous observation: "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced, ... [b]ut I know it when I see it"?
      This statement applies to effective demonstrative evidence just as well as it does to the original subject Stewart had in mind.
      What is e...

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