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Bias: Show that the witness is testifying under an immunity agreement or plea bargain, has a personal relationship with someone involved in the case, or is being paid for expertise.
Vibeke Norgaard Martin • 101 Things I Learned® in Law School
(published in the United States as The Three Coffins), Carr devoted an entire chapter to the famous “Locked Room Lecture,” in which his sleuth, Dr. Gideon Fell, outlines seven possible categories of solutions, each with endless variations.
Dann McDorman • West Heart Kill: A novel
Limitations: Show that the witness’s view was obstructed, or that the witness has abnormal memory due to mental incapacity or intoxication. Expertise: Show that credentials are inadequate or not specific to the subject, or that the purity of the evidence evaluated by the expert is in question.
Vibeke Norgaard Martin • 101 Things I Learned® in Law School
One of the most robust findings in criminology is that increasing the severity of punishment has little deterrent effect. People simply aren’t as sensitive to the potential costs of crime as the rational-choice model predicts they should be, and so efforts to reduce it by cracking down have failed to justify the immense fiscal and social costs of m
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in a car accident. You don’t believe me? Why don’t you go take a look at it yourself? There’s blood all over. Nafees was thrown halfway through the windshield.” “But Waqar was still wearing his seat belt,” said the
Brad Thor • Full Black
The girl was his only lead to Mendez, and he didn’t intend to take any chances. The white TransAm, with its Kansas license plate, would be easy to follow, whereas his own beatup Pontiac blended right in with the thousands of dented cars on Miami’s highways.