Cross-examination — trial lawyers’ golden child — is often paired with sarcasm and indignation.
Cross-examination is, in part, about parading around the entire courtroom, exchanging menacing stares and fist-pounding on the table. Cross-examination can be used quickly to bludgeon a witness into submission or cause hundreds of paper cuts that are precise and eventually deadly to their previous testimony.
Cross-examination occupies our every thought during trial and is the reason we keep a notepad on …