What kind of learner are you? Over 40 percent of the jury pool nationally belongs to the millennial generation, composed of people who were born after 1982 who grew up with computers in their homes, schools, and businesses. The millennials are accustomed to information being delivered visually and in short order.
Your jurors are visual learners and that’s why you want to utilize visuals in cross-examination. Visuals also cause jurors to retain information. If it is only oral—testimony and attorney talk, jurors will retain only 10%. If it is oral and visual, they will retain 65%
In the George Zimmerman trial, prosecutor John Guy used a dummy on cross examination of defense expert to illustrate that if 17-year old Trevon Martin were straddling Zimmerman, Zimmerman would have had trouble getting his handgun from his holster.
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