Jury Trial Strategy – Trial Lawyer Stuff

Jack Swerling – criminal defense lawyer – cross examining a witness for the government in a criminal trial.

If it wasn’t on video, you wouldn’t believe it. A prosecutor teaching other prosecutors how to pick a jury at voir dire.

He thinks that blacks and smart people are the worst kind of jurors for prosecutors. According to him, blacks give too many not guilty verdicts, and smart people over-think “beyond a reasonable doubt” and try to figure out what it actually means – if you are a prosecutor, you don’t want that – you don’t want people who actually think about what the law requires them to do.

Prosecutor’s Cross Examination of a murder defendant in Houston. I use this as an opportunity to review how prosecutors cross Defendants in criminal cases.

Doug Goyen, Attorney
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Cross Examination of an informant in a Criminal Case

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Example of a Cross Examination of opposing witness in criminal case

Example of a Cross of a Police Officer in a DWI trial.

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Clip of the closing argument of Tony Serra in a murder trial – he definitely has a style of his own.