While watching her father cross-examine a witness in To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout Finch invokes the first rule of cross-examination that most lawyers—Atticus Finch included—learn: “Never, never, never ...

Cross-examination is a big deal for a key witness. I’ve noticed in trial that it gets some added attentiveness from the jury. Knowing that they’re now seeing one side pitted directly against the other ...

Q: I am being called as a witness in a criminal case. This is because I was at a restaurant when two guys got into it. I saw first hand what happened. One of them initiated it and wound up knocked out ...

From a legal point of view, there are two kinds of questions. OK, maybe four, but the latter two are really riffs on the basic two. Questions on direct examination are a species of their own and ...