The Expert Expert Witness: More Maxims and Guidelines for Testifying in Court

Contents
Preface
Introduction
1
Apologies
2
Arbitrary Pigeonholes
3
Asked and Answered
4
Boundaries Between Expert Witness Roles and Trial Consultation
5
Confabulations
6
Consistent Experts
7
Context
8
Directed Feedback
9
Discovery and Discoveries
10
Ethics in Expert Testimony
11 Evasive Responses: Hopeless But Not Serious
12
Experience Does Not Count
13
Expert Witness as Master Teacher
14
Fact Witnesses
15
Frames of Reference
16
Gender-Intrusive Questions
17
Gotcha and Goodbye
18
Holy Mackerel, Man!
19
Illusory Documentation
20
Integrity Checks
21 Language: It's a Virus
22
Lawyer Bashing and Lawyer Jokes
23
Le Mot Juste
24
Lost and Befuddled
25
Low Pitches
26
Metatestimony
27
Offensive Language
28
Offensive Questions
29 Personal Attacks: Overview
30 Personal Attacks: Demeaning Attorneys
31 Personal Attacks: Internet Vulnerabilities
32 Personal Attacks: Taints
33
Pulling and the Push–Pull
34
Real and Apparent Ambiguities
35
Recording of Assessments
36
Sayonara Solutions
37
Silent Treatments
38
Sleight of Hand
39
Social Construction of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Dangerousness
40
Spontaneity and Alertness on the Stand
41
Swoop and Perch
42
Telephoned and Videorecorded Testimony
43
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You
44
Their Words in Our Mouths
45
Tightrope Walking
46
To Faint, To Weep, To Blank Out
47
Traps of Common Sense
48
True Grit and False
49
Ultimate Opinion Testimony
50
Well Beyond Testimony
51
What We Like to See in an Expert Witness—And What We Don’t
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References
Index
About the Authors