Witness Guide for Deposition or Court [Paperback]

Charlotte Hardwick (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2004

Witness Guide for Deposition or Court: Any Kind of Case including Administrative, Domestic, Criminal, Traffic, or Civil. From Subpoena to Adjournment. Table of Contents

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"Most teens who live on the streets want to tell their stories. Steven Diamond has. Everyone should listen." --Dr. Lois Lee, Founder and President of "Children of the Night" - November 2004.

About the Author

Charlotte Hardwick has written 6 child custody books to date. Hardwick initially shared her personal experience and built on it with the accumulated knowledge from hundreds of cases and thousands of other parent s experiences. Every conceivable aspect of the child custody wars are explored and explained while guiding the reader toward a powerful strategy. If you don't have her books and this book in particular, you are likely to be overmatched; indeed if your attorney doesn't have this book, your attorney is likely to be outmatched. In fact, I would say that the first thing you should do after reading the book yourself, is buy a copy for your attorney and somehow persuade him or her to open the pages and to start reading--anywhere in the book. I promise you your attorney will learn facts, ideas, and strategies new to him or her. The expanse and depth of the material presented here quite frankly amazed me. This extensive tome constitutes an entire course not only in child custody disputes but in human psychology, parenting, and the law itself. The mass of information and the sharp, sound guidance contained herein really amount to a post graduate course in child custody disputes. You will be much impressed with Hardwick's assertive, no-nonsense writing style and organization that managed to painlessly inform while emphasizing a positive approach. Titles include: Win Your Child Custody War, Child Custody Case Management Forms, Witness Guide for Deposition and Court, Killers & Boosters for Child Custody Cases, Dear Judge, (Children's Letters to the Judge), Help and Where to Find it (out of print).

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Pale Horse Publishing; 4th edition (June 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1587470667
• ISBN-13: 978-1587470660
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,519,397 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Witness Guide for Deposition or Court (Paperback)

It's easy to see this wasn't written by a judge, attorney or other professional editing input to cover his[..]. Information without consideration of or worry about pressure from associates or peers offers a refreshing and complete view of the process.
Listings in the Table of Contents Include:

1: Why Me?; How Subpoenas Work; I Don't Belong Here; Passion

2: What Should I Do Now?; Reasons You Want to Testify; Black/White or Shades of Gray; Your Agenda; Skeletons in Your Closet; Defense Against Attack; Strategy; Worst Reasons to Testify

3: Refusing to Testify; When You Are in Contempt; Failure to Appear; You Don't Want to Testify; Can't Pay Witness to Not Testify; Failure to Disclose Sources

4: Unusual Situations; Interpreter; Switching Sides; Stealth Witness; Whose Case is This Anyway?

5: What is a Witness?; Reason for a Witness; Burden of Proof; They Know You Are Coming; Types of Witnesses; The Three Most Important Rules

6: Discovery; Interrogatory; Production of Documents; Admissible Evidence; Fruit of the Poisonous Tree; Time Line

7: Evidence
I Am Not Involved; Demonstrative Evidence; Equipment, Calendar, Camera, Computer, E-Mail & Message Boards; Linguistic Sleuthing; Cyberspace, Telephone, Tape Recorder, Video Tapes

8: Your Testimony; Testimony Terror; Types of Testimony; Content of Your Testimony; Did You See What I Saw?; Purpose of a Pre-Trial Meeting; Non-Issues; Your Assignment; Lies and Statistics; Last Review; Aid to The Enemy; Espionage

9: Perjury; Variations of Oath; Recalling a Witness; Subordination of Perjury; False Swearing, Conflicting Truths; The Court Will Call a Liar a Liar; Proof or Poof; Defense ; gainst Lies; Using Their Lies Against Them; Examining Witness Statements; Non-Fatal Flaw; Your Lies, Start Repairing the Damage; Sue for False Accusations

10: Your Visual Impact; First Impression; Halo Effect; Court Attire; Defensive,Positive, Aggressive and Delay Behaviors; News Flash Junkies; Friendly Fire

11: Deposition; Types of Depositions; Audio and Video Admissibility; Pre-Deposition Meeting; Second Deposition; Rules and Costs for Deposition; Best Time to Be Deposed; Personal Preparation; Instructions from the Opposition; Example of Instructions; Deposition Outline Form; During, Ending and Checking Your Deposition; Correcting Mistakes and Objection to Corrections; 12: Video Deposition; The Court Case of the Future; Uses; Fear of the Camera; Showing the Pain; Challenging Video Deposition; Synchronized Deposition; General Rules; Important Differences; Deposition Induces a Trial

13: Confidentiality; Your Children, Your Parents or Your Spouse; Professional Services; Attorney, Clergy, Doctors, Medical Records, Business Owner, Court and Documentation; Breach or Compromise

14: Work-Related; Services; Accident Investigation, Accountants and Bookkeepers; Arbitration and Conciliation Court; Day Care Workers; Detectives; DNA - Genetic Testing and Drug Tests; GAL, Legal, Medical, Scientific Transcribers; Lie Detector Test; Liquor Store, Medical Review Consultants, Paralegal Service, Pharmacist, Police, Security Patrol, Spy Shops; State or Federal Employee, Teachers and Travel Agents

15: Experts; Loose Cannon; What Experts Can Do; Experts Only, Please; Physician, Consultant, Expert; Physician's and Expert's Responsibility; Some Experts Are Prostitutes; Confidentiality; Before Court; Mock Trial Court and In Court; Questioning to Expect; Traps to Avoid; Opposition Expert; Your Opinion of Their Expert; Challenging Expert Testimony; After Testifying

16: Attorneys; Attorney Only Protects the Client; Won't Be an Accessory; Good Old Attorney System; Attorney Types: Ol' Buddy, Inquisitor, Confessor, Faster Than a Speeding Bullet, Crazy Quilt, Word Butcher, Ambusher, New Kid on the Block, Roamer, Silent Waiter, The Exposer and Mad Dog Attorney; The Mad Dog During Deposition and Handling the Mad Dog In Court

17: Judge; Perception of Hierarchy in Law; Welcome to the Hotel California; Types of Judges: Punisher, Reformer and Negotiator; Good Judges; Judges' Influence; Opinions About Judges; Cannot Do with the Judge; Judicial Immunity; Abuse of Discretion

18: Traffic Court; Photo Traffic Signal Violations; Officer No Show; When You Get To Traffic Court; Guilty, Fines, Not Guilty, Trial, Penalties, Appeal and Rights; Best Way to Avoid a Ticket

19: Civil or Criminal Court; What Actually Happens; Types of Courts, U.S. Supreme Court, Appellate Court, State or Superior Court, Courts of Limited Jurisdiction, Military Court and Tribal Court; Grand Jury Trial; Types of Cases: Civil, Criminal, Administrative and Equity Cases; Are All Court Appearances Equal?; Know the Legal Arena; Prepare for Your Day in Court, Five Days Before and Night Before, in the Morning and Later in the Day; Your Day in Court; How to Act in Court; Court Joker; Smoke and Mirrors; Exclusion from Courtroom; During Your Courtroom Testimony; Confidentiality - Court

20: Jurors; Who may serve as a juror?; Choosing the Jury; Prospective Juror Questionnaire; Jury Consultant's; Criminal or Civil; Jurors' Oath; Stages of Trial; The Arguments of Counsel; Communicate With The Jury; Judge's Charge to the Jury; Conduct During the Trial; Shadow Juries; In the Jury Room; After the Trial; Juror Post Trial Interviews

21: Questions?; Types of Questioning: Direct Examination, Cross Examination and Re-direct; Types of Questions: Multi-Part Questions, Take-Me-Along, Open, Leading, Commonsense, and Hypothetical Questions; General Rules of Objection; Objections to a Question: Argumentative, Compound, Hearsay, Irrelevant, Lack of Foundation, Leading, Presumption and Repetitive; Dodging Tricky Questions

22: Answers; Don't Worry About Looking Stupid; Rating Scale Questions; Question By Design; As a Lamb to Slaughter; Safe Answers; Not Sure! Not Sure?; Do You Know It All?; Absolute No No's; Witness Impeachment

23: Children Testifying; Oath of Truth for Children; Child's Own Attorney; Alternatives to Open Court; Ten Tips to Help Children; Children and Confidentiality; Children Feel Guilt; Child's Need to Know; Why Children Don't Lie Well; Don't Tell Children to Lie; Who Will Know the Child Lied?; Children Testifying in Court; Competence of Child to Testify; Knowing Truth from Lie; Recording a Child's Testimony; Challenging a Child's Testimony; Suppress Child's Testimony; Fear, Bias, Prejudice or Interest

24: Pre and Sentencing; Determining Sentence; Mandatory Sentencing; Prosecution and Defense; Arguments on Sentence

25: Sentencing Statement; Preparing a Statement; Time Limit; Recommend a Sentence; Supporting Statements; Inflammatory Statements; Examples of Victim Statements; Examples of Convicted Statements; Important Considerations; Order of Presentation; Verdict by Judge or Jury

26: Appeal the Threat; Old Information Only; You Won't Have to Be There

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