CONTENTS: Evidentiary rules for expert witness evidence / Raymond P. Micklewright -- Legal issues for jury selection or what to know before you know anything / Darren R. Cantor -- Opening statements / Carrie H. Clein -- Direct/cross examination of lay witnesses / Carrie H. Clein -- Making and defending objections, also known as reinin' them doggies in / Darren R. Cantor -- Instructions and verdicts more accurately described as the less interesting and maddening, but imperative details of trial / Darren R. Cantor -- Closing argument / Raymond P. Micklewright -- A legal ethics primer for criminal defense lawyers / Raymond P. Micklewright
CONTENTS: Evaluating the case -- Function of defense counsel -- Areas to attack when defending a client -- Special considerations