Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-224) and index.
Contents:
Apologies -- Arbitrary pigeonholes -- Asked and answered -- Boundaries between expert witness roles and trial consultation -- Confabulations -- Consistent experts -- Context -- Directed feedback -- Discovery and discoveries -- Ethics in expert testimony -- Evasive responses : hopeless but not serious -- Experience does not count -- Expert witness as master teacher -- Fact witnesses -- Frames of reference -- Gender-intrusive questions -- Gotcha and goodbye -- Holy mackerel, man! -- Illusory documentation -- Integrity checks -- Language : it's a virus -- Lawyer bashing and lawyer jokes -- Le mot juste -- Lost and befuddled -- Low pitches -- Metatestimony -- Offensive language -- Offensive questions -- Personal attacks : overview -- Personal attacks : demeaning attorneys -- Personal attacks : internet vulnerabilities -- Personal attacks : taints -- Pulling and the push-pull -- Real and apparent ambiguities -- Recording of assessments -- Sayonara solutions -- Silent treatments -- Sleight of hand -- Social construction of posttraumatic stress disorder and dangerousness -- Spontaneity and alertness on the stand -- Swoop and perch -- Telephoned and videorecorded testimony -- Thank you, thank you, thank you -- Their words in our mouths -- Tightrope walking -- To faint, to weep, to blank out -- Traps of common sense -- True grit and false -- Ultimate opinion testimony -- Well beyond testimony -- What we like to see in an expert witness -- and what we don't.
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