The Art of Cross-Examination With the Cross-Examinations of Important Witnesses in Some Celebrated Cases

On December 15, 1900, there appeared in the _New York World_ an article written by Thomas J. Minnock, a newspaper reporter, in which he claimed to have been an eye-witness to th...

In view of the fact also that a keen interest is always taken in the personality and life sketches of great cross-examiners, it has seemed fitting to introduce some brief sketch...

In the preceding chapters it was attempted to offer a few suggestions, gathered from experience, for the proper handling of an honest witness who, through ignorance or partisans...

In these days when it is impossible to know everything, but it becomes necessary for success in any avocation to know something of everything and everything of something, the ex...

One of the most recent cross-examinations to be made the subject of appeal to the Supreme Court General Term and the New York Court of Appeals was the cross-examination of Russe...

The modern method of studying any subject, or acquiring any art, is the inductive method. This is illustrated in our law schools, where to a large extent actual cases are studie...

If by experience we have learned the first lesson of our art,--to control our _manner_ toward the witness even under the most trying circumstances,--it then becomes important th...

The records of the criminal courts in this country contain few cases that have excited so much human interest among all classes of the community as the prosecution and convictio...

It was the cross-examination of a Birmingham attorney, named Jeremiah Smith, by Sir Alexander Cockburn, then Attorney-General and afterward Chief Justice of England, in the cele...

It needs but the simple statement of the nature of cross-examination to demonstrate its indispensable character in all trials of questions of fact. No cause reaches the stage of...

Cross-examination as to credit has also its legitimate use to accomplish the same end; but this powerful weapon for good has almost equal possibilities for evil. It is proposed...

Much depends upon the _sequence_ in which one conducts the cross-examination of a dishonest witness. You should never hazard the important question until you have laid the found...

"The issue of a cause rarely depends upon a speech and is but seldom even affected by it. But there is never a cause contested, the result of which is not mainly dependent upon...

Although I am of the opinion that it is impossible to embody in any set of rules the art of examination of witnesses, yet the Golden Rules of Brown contain so many useful and va...

Nothing could be more absurd or a greater waste of time than to cross-examine a witness who has testified to no material fact against you. And yet, strange as it may seem, the c...