Defense - The Argument for Innocence
A client, until proven guilty, is innocent. Your job is to maintain the innocent status of your client throughout this court case. You will be working against the prosecution - in other words, you do NOT want to share your strategy for court with the other team. You will also want to predict what their strategy will be. Your team of defenders includes four lawyers - and a trial includes many difficult and intricate parts. It may help to split your lawyers up with different jobs. You're responsible for:
- An opening statement
- Calling on and questioning witnesses (direct examination)
- Cross-examining witnesses (called by the prosecution)
- Closing Statement
Preparing your opening Statement
Each side may outline the proof to be presented to the jury during the trial. Opening statements are not evidence, only expectations of what each side expects the evidence to prove.
To the right is a great video that leads you through the basics of preparing an opening statement. As a written outline:
Tips:
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Forming Objections
The video to the right is about objections. More instructions will be updated here soon. Thank you for checking in though. You're awesome.
Meanwhile, look at these fancy flash cards about the fifteen different types of objections!
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Preparing Your Closing Statement
The video to the right is an example closing statement. Watch the video and check below for written notes:
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