I wrote about the botox effect in October 2010. Intuition is partially based upon micro-expressions. I worried about being handicapped in trial. What if a juror or witness had been facially frozen. The article concluded: "This all means that I better embrace my wrinkles because I need a jury to believe that I am me."
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We'll never learn exactly what went through the commercial truck driver's mind. He wanted to take a left turn. He was supposed to yield to oncoming traffic. But he didn't.
The front of Lynn's car crushed inwards, breaking her bones and trapping her inside. It took 45 minutes for the fire department to finally extract her. We shared her memories with the jury:
Read MoreWe can now add movie director to my bio. Thanks to xtranormal.
If youtube doesn't work, then click here: http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/11828486/
...because I haven't quite figured everything out yet.
karen
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It is college weekend so Noelle's friends are out of town... visiting colleges I guess. Her sisters are off at their own schools. Leaving just me, Noelle, and Nala of course.
We go to the movies, out to eat, to paint-the-pottery-shop. Watch Beyonce live. Try to dance like her (which is impossible). Start a home improvement project. And basically hang out.
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Yesterday a law student from Phoenix asked for this article (written about a decade ago).
Trial Lawyers are often perceived by the public as arrogant and phony. This is because the art of braggadocio is so prevalent and even sometimes necessary in our profession. Behind the show lie those memories that need to be periodically replayed so we don’t buy into the myth of our professional persona.
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Everything we say can be turned around and used against our clients. Lawyers are trained to analyze fact patterns in terms of logical progression. A leads to B which results in C. We think if we're logical that's good enough. But many of members of the public don't believe a thing lawyers say. According to various polls, we are one step above or below used car salespeople and politicians (no disrespect intended).
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What do you get when you cross:
A professional D.J. An African endangered species volunteer.
A man who's grown up with the internet and is a whiz at technology. A woman who's yet to meet a person she couldn't charm with her superior people skills.
Read MoreThe "thin skull" or "egg shell" plaintiff stems from this English case.
“If a man is negligently run over or otherwise negligently injured in his body, it is no answer to the sufferer’s claim for damage that he would have suffered less injury, or no injury at all, if he had not had an unusually thin skull or an unusually weak heart.”
Read MoreJudge Gonzales' courtroom has electronic sound recording. This excerpt is of the voir dire done in 2010 in a medical malpractice trial. It was described in the first diary entry of the Voir Dire Booklet published in 2010 (also known as the "clicking red pointed nail" entry).
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Your loved one is killed. You cannot function. You cannot stop crying. You cannot stop thinking about your beloved. Your world seems like it is ending.
On top of this, there is an awareness that someone may have caused this death. Your loved one was killed not because of war or because of an Act of God. Death came too soon because someone did something either negligently or on purpose. And it is not right.
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