CROSS-EXAMINING THE EXPERT – THE PRESUMED INNOCENT ILLUSTRATION
Cross-Examination Techniques DemonstratedPresumed Innocent, Scott Turow’s masterpiece thriller and courtroom drama, superbly illustrates how to conduct a winning cross-examination of an expert. The expert is forensic pathologist Doctor Tatsuo Kumagai, known to his friends as “Ted” and to others as “Painless.” Doctor Kumagai is called to testify in the murder trial of chief assistant prosecutor [...]