ATTACKING ADVERSE DEPONENT'S "I DON'T KNOW,"
"I DON'T REMEMBER," & "I DO REMEMBER"
(presentations of 1 to 3.5 hours of teaching time)
- Deposition logic & Whack!
- Pick a chair! … Yes, No, or Maybe
- The many meanings of I don't know
- Four lines of attack vs. I don't know
- The Rosetta Stone question vs. I don't know
- The invalid I don't know
- Why I don't remember is the all-time, toughest answer to successfully attack
- Adverse deponent's motives re "forgetting"
- A famous witness's four Maybe answers
- The Rosetta Stone question vs. I don't remember
- Twelve lines of attack vs. I don't remember:
- Acquisition of info recent
- Subject importance to witness
- Invited to act
- Multiple experiences with subject
- Memory revived
- Triggered emotion or strong attitude
- Prior training or experience with subject
- Novelty
- Similar persons able to remember
- Witness's even greater feats of memory
- Witness's this-case motive to "forget"
- Selective memory
- A famous cross-examination analyzed
- Proposed axiom re I do remember
- A memory test
- A famous witness's I do remember
- Twelve lines of attack, including:
- Memory-power exceeds norm
- Not reliably corroborated
- Memory-power selective
