SARTRE AND HOW THE WITNESSES SEE YOUR CASE

No one object, no group of objects is especially designed to be organized as specifically either ground or figure; all depends on the direction of my attention. The question for us is not "what happened?" but rather "what can we-honorably, ethically, and in harmony with the rules of e...

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Published in:Litigation 2017-04, Vol.43 (3), p.57-58
Main Author: TIGAR, MICHAEL E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attorneys
Consciousness
Evidence
Litigator's Muse
Testimony
Trials
Witnesses
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Summary:No one object, no group of objects is especially designed to be organized as specifically either ground or figure; all depends on the direction of my attention. The question for us is not "what happened?" but rather "what can we-honorably, ethically, and in harmony with the rules of evidence-demonstrate to have happened?" Therefore, the first question of our prospective witness is not "what did you see?" It is "what were you doing there?" Or "what was the direction of your attention?" We follow up by asking, "What did you expect to see?" Going deeper, we want to know what set of attitudes and preconceptions the witness brought to the event. In this opening statement, I want to share with you a confident prediction about what the evidence in this case will show you. The testimony of the witnesses, and the pictures and physical evidence they will bring, does not come in all at once. To help this process along, I want to introduce some of what these witnesses will say and bring. Which of these people around me would be in the best position to describe the events?" More prosaically, Edward Bennett Williams used to tell of his going to...
ISSN:0097-9813
2162-9765