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Witness Guide for Deposition or Court

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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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