Saturday, January 7, 2017

Voir Dire (VD), Opening Statements (OS), and Closing Arguments (CA) -- Boilerplates

One one hand, you're faced with imprisoning an innocent man, effectively ruining his life. ON the other, you're faced with letting a guilty person go free, leaving justice, perhaps, up to the hand of God at a later date. Of these two, option one is the best course of action if you have any doubt about my client's guilt. A unjust conviction will follow you home, reappear in your dreams, and haunt you for the balance of your life.
The State will/has waste[d] your time by providing you with weak indicia of proposed evidence; the way he looked, the way she acted, acted guilty:  BULLSHIT.

IMPORTANT TIP:  As I'm preparing for trial, open a word document and fill it with ideas, strategy, cross x questions, themes, good OS, VD, and CA ideas.  Go into the document constantly, making changes, organizing, editing, etc. until my trial strategy.

Relay the Jury instructions constantly.  "Judge Pearson will tell you that you shall ...

The Sherry Gilliam case is a good example of me putting this to use.  I got Sherry acquitted without even calling her to testify.  My case was made on cross examination of States witnesses.  I put on no proof of my own aside from telling the jury that Kohl's Department Store was a Menomenie Wisconson "behemoth" that generated 19 billion dollars in revenue in 2018 alone.


CA:  What can I say?  Well, I can easily say this  . . .

How did things come to be this way.

VD/OS/CA:  The most effective forces that drive people to act are fear and intimidation.  Fear and intimidation have historically been employed to build pyramids, to construct the Great Wall of China, and even the Washington Monument.  And in every case that intimidation was handed down from governments. Intimidation is still employed in order to exact the truth from witnesses at trial.  Take this courtroom, for example.  It's not only guarded to armed sentinels, it calls for respect.  FED ONLY:  Cavernous.

He did not "act."  He "reacted."

Reasonable Doubt:  When you deliberate the fate of Mr. X ask yourselves this question:  If I find him guilty will there be any lingering, residual doubt in my mind as I live out the rest of my life that I may have irreversibly convicted an innocent person of a crime he did not commit.  Make sure you don't put yourself in this position if at all possible.  Err on the side of acquittal if such doubt exists because you won't have a second chance.

You hold perhaps more power today than you'll hold for the rest of your lives.  You have the power to convict if you find that every element of the crime has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt, and you have the power to acquit in the event you find that these elements have not been proven beyond a reasonable doubt, undergirded with moral certainty.  I want to disuss the latter of these for a moment.

The moon is always full.  These halves and crescents we celebrate are only illusions.

You'll have to live with your decision.  So make it count, and err on the side of liberty.

"Neighbors."

I trust that your deliberations will be based on sound reasoning and your verdict empowered with moral certainty.  Anything short of that is unjust.

Jury wins:  Jeff Sexton, Jason Singleton, Danny Burton, Johnny Trent, Billy McMahan, Benton Greene, Wesley Crockett, Sherry Gilliam, (DUI case Amvets), sheldon johnson, sheldon johnson, danny dyer, John Cowan, Boyd Mayes, Beverly Black,
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