The expert expert witness : more maxims and guidelines for testifying in court / Stanley L. Brodsky and Thomas G. Gutheil.

Author/creator Brodsky, Stanley L., 1939- author.
Other author Gutheil, Thomas G. author.
Format Book
EditionSecond edition.
PublicationWashington, DC : American Psychological Association, 2015.
Descriptiononline resource
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Subjects

Contents Apologies -- Arbitrary pigeonholes -- Asked and answered -- Boundaries between expert witness roles and trial consultation -- Confabulations -- Consistent experts -- Context -- Directed feedback -- Discovery and discoveries -- Ethics in expert testimony -- Evasive responses : hopeless but not serious -- Experience does not count -- Expert witness as master teacher -- Fact witnesses -- Frames of reference -- Gender-intrusive questions -- Gotcha and goodbye -- Holy mackerel, man! -- Illusory documentation -- Integrity checks -- Language : it's a virus -- Lawyer bashing and lawyer jokes -- Le mot juste -- Lost and befuddled -- Low pitches -- Meta testimony -- Offensive language -- Offensive questions -- Personal attacks : overview -- Personal attacks : demeaning attorneys -- Personal attacks : internet vulnerabilities -- Personal attacks : taints -- Pulling and the push-pull -- Real and apparent ambiguities -- Recording of assessments -- Sayonara solutions -- Silent treatments -- Sleight of hand -- Social construction of ptsd and dangerousness -- Spontaneity and alertness on the stand -- Swoop and perch -- Telephoned-in testimony -- Thank you, thank you, thank you -- Their words in our mouths -- Tightrope walking -- To faint, to weep, to blank out -- Traps of common sense -- True grit and false -- Ultimate opinion testimony -- Well beyond testimony -- What we like to see in an expert witness : and what we don't.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Technical details Mode of Access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2015009718
ISBN9781433820557
ISBN1433820552

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