The
Second Edition of Cross-Examination
Handbook: Persuasion, Strategies, and Techniques has just been published by
Wolters Kluwer. This new edition continues its straightforward step-by-step
instruction that gained it praise for the first edition. The book's guidance
regarding strategies and techniques continues to be combined with examples from
illustrious trials including new ones, such as the Zimmerman trial.
The
new edition adds, among other topics, visual cross-examination, social media
impeachment and the interplay of discovery and cross. Also, the Cross Handbook has been updated to cover
the new Evidence Rules and case law.
Along
with the new edition comes a revamped and expanded website for the Cross Handbook www.aspenlawschool.com/books/clark_crossexam2e.
On the new website are the following:
- case files for use in professional development
seminars or law school trial advocacy classes;
- for professors password protected Teacher’s
Manual and Actors Guide (containing witness instructions for role-playing
exercises), and
- supplementary materials, such as articles on
cross-examination.
