Criminal Law Field Placement Clinic Resource Guide

Use this book as a reference tool to familiarize yourself with any phase of the trial. This book presents a realistic approach to practicing and developing trial advocacy skills. It contains a "Trial Basics" chapter, which explains each step of the trial and what role each advocate plays. The authors guide the beginning advocate from developing a winning case theory through all phases of trial, explaining how to present a case as a story, and how to tell the story to the jury powerfully and persuasively. This edition also has checklists that guide readers in their performance. As NITA’s best selling text, all of NITA's renowned full trial programs use the text, as do prominent law schools nationwide.

Check out this text from the library to take with you to review before and during trial. This easy-to-use, handy companion to Ehrhardt's Florida Evidence functions as a basic guide to frequently made trial objections and objections during pretrial depositions. It lays out each objection followed by appropriate responses, citations to controlling authority, and alternate tactics when an objection may be sustained.

Florida Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases, a product of the Supreme Court's Committee on Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases, provides an authoritative array of instructions for virtually every criminal offense, as well as general instructions, grand jury instructions, and proceedings for the commitment of violent sexual predators.

Calling upon nearly forty years of jury trial experience, and having trained thousands of trial lawyers, Robert R. Rose shows how to successfully defend your client, from the time you first take the case to the moment the jury delivers the verdict. Rose explains step-by-step how to elevate your trial skills to a world-class standard, regardless of experience. Learn how to represent the "unrepresentable" by respecting your client, using your fear to your advantage, telling the jury the truth about the weaknesses of your case, and building trust relationships with jury members that enable them to advocate for your client during deliberations.

This book introduces young lawyers to the art of trial advocacy. The author provides a historical context and shares engaging stories of exemplary trial lawyers throughout history. He then walks the reader through the role and qualities of the trial lawyer and presents an in-depth primer on rhetoric and persuasion. Each stage of the trial is considered in depth with examples from real cases.

The ability to persuade comes naturally to some people and is completely foreign to others. This new second edition, is your thorough guide to the way jurors make decisions, and how you can use that knowledge to convince them that your story of a case is the correct version. This book was written for law students, experienced litigators, and everyone in between who needs to understand the most effective ways to convince a jury.