UID:
almahu_9949687536502882
Format:
1 online resource (231 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-8147-5290-X
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0-8147-6502-5
Series Statement:
Critical America
Content:
Lubet's Nothing But The Truth presents a novel and engaging analysis of the role of storytelling in trial advocacy. The best lawyers are storytellers, he explains, who take the raw and disjointed observations of witnesses and transform them into coherent and persuasive narratives. Critics of the adversary system, of course, have little patience for storytelling, regarding trial lawyers as flimflam artists who use sly means and cunning rhetoric to befuddle witnesses and bamboozle juries. Why not simply allow the witnesses to speak their minds, without the distorting influence of lawyers' strata
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Biff and me : stories that are truer than true -- Edgardo Mortara : forbidden truths -- John Brown : political truth and consequences -- Wyatt Earp : truth and context -- Liberty Valance : truth or justice -- Atticus Finch : race, class, gender, and truth -- Sheila McGough : the impossibility of the whole truth.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8147-5174-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8147-5173-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.18574/nyu/9780814765029
