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Defending Difficult Cases: Women & Children as Witnesses

CLE Credit Hours: Up to 6 general credits

Program Summary: This seminar will help you take-on and win some of the most difficult cases. Learn to win cases with the most sympathetic of prosecution witnesses: women and children. Psychologists and lawyers will present information on how to persuade a jury that women and children do lie in sexual assault and domestic violence cases. The presentations will include specifics on child development, techniques for cross-examining children, using electronic tools such as Facebook and My Space for preparing cross-examination, demystifying prosecution experts for the jury and preparing the successful direct examination of your client at trial. The faculty includes experts and lawyers who have successfully defended jury cases.

Seminar Presentations

Cross-Examination in Sex Cases in the Electronic Age – William Gallagher

Cross-Examining Children – Kathleen Stilling

Character Testimony as Substantive & Impeaching Evidence
– Justice Charles W Daniels

Evaluating Testimony of the Child & the Expert Witness
– Katherine Okla & Lisa Kirsch Satawa

Preparing Clients to Testify – Pamela Mackey

Themes & Theories in Child Sex Cases - Ricardo Pesquera

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