While watching her father cross-examine a witness in To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout Finch invokes the first rule of cross-examination that most lawyers—Atticus Finch included—learn: “Never, never, never ...

Cross-examination is the stuff of drama in fictional courtroom depictions. The savvy lawyer taking on a hostile witness on the stand—these are the moments TV and movie audiences live for. However, the ...

Q: I am being called as a witness in a criminal case. This is because I was at a restaurant when two guys got into it. I saw first hand what happened. One of them initiated it and wound up knocked out ...

Fact witnesses are integral to the litigation process, whether they are associated with a party or not. In criminal law, it's the eyewitness who saw what happened, either a random individual on the ...

Requiring cross-examination in campus sexual-misconduct proceedings is among the key features of the Department of Education’s proposed Title IX reforms currently open for public comment. The ...

Sam Bankman-Fried’s cross-examination Monday afternoon in his ongoing criminal fraud trial provided little satisfaction to those hoping for a mea culpa from the disgraced FTX founder. During an ...

Speaking to a client during cross-examination could affect that client’s credibility. My client was in the middle of cross-examination in a criminal case when he asked to be able to speak to me. Am I ...