Author: Stephen A. Saltzburg

Publication Date: October 2007

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About the Book

Few topics are discussed more amongst trial lawyers than the methods, procedures and practices used when arguing a case in a court of law. Few lawyers are as capable and experienced at providing insight, practical knowledge, and how to instruction on winning trial tactics as author Stephen Saltzburg.

Trial Tactics -- a compilation of high profile criminal cases, practice tips, legal analyses, and cautions that prepares defense counsel, prosecutors and judges to do outstanding work at trial and assists them in ensuring that justice is done each day in every court throughout the land. The text provides excellent statutory, case law and inside advice in updates of the "Trial Tactics" columns written by ABA Criminal Justice Section Chair and George Washington University Wallace and Beverly Woodbury Professor of Law Stephen Saltzburg since 1991 for the Criminal Justice Magazine.

The 54-chapter book is broken down in seven parts: Basic Principles; Examination of Witnesses; Lay and Expert Opinion; Hearsay, Confrontation and Compulsory Process; Character Evidence; Summaries and Exhibits, and; Opening and Closing Arguments.

Subjects addressed in detail include the basic requirements for offers of proof; dangers of homicidal cross-examination; bolstering and attacking the cooperating witness; polygraph evidence, experts and key witnesses; privilege versus compulsory process; self defense and rules of evidence, and; transcripts of tapes.